In the media, we are bombarded with stories about teachers who are struggling and frustrated with implementing the Common Core standards...

“My students do Close Reading every day at the start of the day. It has really been a great routine for my class”. In a room full of...

Maybe I am just a cranky old man, or maybe I do not understand what others are talking about, or maybe both. I recently read an article...

As all new attempts at curriculum reform, the Common Core has generated its’ share of criticism. Looking back at Whole Language, New...

This is the second installment in the series, What are we doing to ourselves? Over the past several weeks parents, college educated...

This is first in a series of blogs about how our baby-bathwater/forest-trees mentalities are making us crazy. One of the ways students...

Let me tell you how this latest educational movie, “Effective Instruction in the Common Core,” ends. The movie ends with a predictable...

With the implementation of the Common Core Standards the publishers are at it again. Materials are merely being relabeled as “For Common...

An article published in Education Week, August 14, 2014, reports teachers feel inadequately prepared for Common Core, even after...