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Continue reading →: Five Questions to Ask about the Common Core*
If you are reading this, you know the world didn’t end in 2012. But the world of American education may end in 2014, when the Common Core is scheduled to march into thousands of schools in the United States and end a “chaotic, fragmented, unequal, obsolete, and failing” system that…
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Continue reading →: TIMSS/PIRLS: Reactions from Asia’s Top Performers
Handwringing and head scratching around the 2011 TIMSS and PIRLS results released yesterday continue around the globe. While Western countries show great admiration of the outstanding scores of East Asia and lament on their own abysmal performance, the East Asian education systems, while celebrating their achievement, are worried about something…
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Continue reading →: Numbers Can Lie: What TIMSS and PISA Truly Tell Us, if Anything?
“America’s Woeful Public Schools: TIMSS Sheds Light on the Need for Systemic Reform”[1] “Competitors Still Beat U.S. in Tests”[2] “U.S. students continue to trail Asian students in math, reading, science”[3] These are a few of the thousands of headlines generated by the release of the 2011 TIMSS and PIRLS results…
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Continue reading →: Suspend Testing after the Hurricane: An Open Letter from Denny Taylor
Two Important Research Findings on Children and Trauma Support the Halting of Testing in K-12 Public Schools: An Open Letter to Governor Christie, Governor Cuomo and Mayor Bloomberg er Denny Taylor, Professor of Literacy Studies, Founding Director of the International Center for Everybody’s Child, Hofstra University 11-4-12 Dear Governor Christie, Governor Cuomo,…
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Continue reading →: Hurricane Sandy: Recommendations for Administrators and Teachers by Denny Taylor
Professor Denny Taylor of Hofstra University asked me to share this. Thanks, Denny.–Yong November 3, 2012 Recommendations for Administrators and Teachers Responding to Hurricane Sandy: Hurricane Sandy has created long lasting catastrophic conditions in the North East of the United States. People are making heroic efforts to respond to the…
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Continue reading →: Performance Enhancing Drugs in School–From Doug Green
(A guest post by Dr. Doug Green at http://www.drdouggreen.com/). With all of the news about Lance Armstrong, who seems to be the poster boy for performance enhancing drugs (PEDs), I think it’s time to look at how this situation impacts schools. School districts in many districts have been testing high…
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Continue reading →: Is There Evidence to Support the Common Core: My Questions to New York Education Commissioner King
A number of people have asked me about my brief encounter with New York Commissioner John King at the NYSCOSS Fall Leadership Summit on September 24, 2012. Here is my recollection. A couple of weeks ago, I had the honor to listen to New York Education Commissioner Dr. John B.…
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Continue reading →: Doublethink: The Creativity-Testing Conflict
Originally published by Education Week Online: July 17, 2012 and in Print: July 18, 2012. See also Education Week blogger Catherine A. Cardno’s interview with the me about my latest book, “Zhao on Entrepreneurship, the Common Core, and Bacon.” Doublethink is “to hold simultaneously two opinions which canceled out, knowing them to be…
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Continue reading →: Is Education a National Security Issue: A Critique of the Rice-Klein Report
In March the Council of Foreign Relations released the report of a task force chaired by former head of New York City Public schools and now a News Corp. executive vice president and close advisor to the media giant’s chairman and chief executive, Rupert Murdoch and former secretary of state…
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Continue reading →: Common Sense Vs. Common Core: How to Minimize the Damages of the Common Core
The wonder drug has been invented, manufactured, packaged, and shipped. Doctors and nurses are being trained to administer the drug properly. Companies and consultants are offering products and services to help with the proper administering of this wonder drug. A national effort is underway to develop tools to monitor the…












