William Bennett appeared on Campbell Brown's reformster PR site to stick up for the Common Core, but he ignores some inconvenient truths...

You know, perhaps we're looking at this the wrong way. Perhaps we are missing a golden opportunity. After all-- at this point, very fe...

We've had ample time to collect the education predictions for the coming year, and it's an interesting batch. Most of them follow a ...

Had I known what this blog was going to turn into, I probably would have done it on wordpress, which has many more nifty tools. This last we...

It is by far the weakest argument presented in favor of the Common Core (well, the weakest argument that is not, like "written by teach...

On Christmas Day, PBS Newshour ran a piece about Common Core that was, if nothing else, organized around a fun central image. "Special...

NPR just ran a piece courtesy of the Hechinger report profiling Jason Zimba . If David Coleman is widely known as the Architect of Common Co...

What about the students who move? It's a question often raised in support of the CCSS, or just national standards in general. Don'...

Nobody can accuse the Daily Beast of being unclear about its position. " The Incredibly Stupid War on the Common Core " says the h...

The comment keeps coming ( most recently from Rick Hess ) that Common Core regime opponents can't just say "no" to the Core, t...

(Part II of a series; Part I is here ) Sol Stern has been trying to cyber-argue with Diane Ravitch and Mercedes Schneider lately (you can ...

Paul Bruno is a science teacher who writes a blog of his own while occasionally contributing to This Week in Education over at Scholastic....

When movies present us with science-related disasters, we generally involve one of two sciency types-- the mad scientists and the sad scient...

Are you too non-rich to attend Camp Philos , the philosophical retreat  for educational thought leaders at Lake Placid this summer? Then 201...