education standards

The latest nonsense on education courtesy of FauxNews claims that the Baltimore school system has re-orientated from Equality of Opportunity (Everyone has a chance to learn) to Equality of Outcome (Everybody passes)...

My state has thrown out its old math standards, and with it the high-stakes high school test tied to those standards. It adopted Common Core standards, and now a lot of people want to ditch those standards. I thought states were required to have a high school exit exam, but apparently that's...

I've seen a lot of animus against Common Core educational standards from conservatives on facebook, on their blogs and on their forums. But I have yet to really get their problem with it. I see lots of talk about it being "indoctrination" and teaching "new math" and things like that...

Back when I went to elementary school, America was just getting over the disaster of "New Math". So I learned ordinary math, using times tables, and drills. And at some point, I became smart enough to figure out on my own why the standard algorithms were correct and effective. Now I have a...