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Teacher Paul B. discusses the weaknesses of relying on standards alone to judge exactly what it is that students are supposed to be able to do. He has advice for parents going into parent-teacher conferences to help them get straight, meaningful answers.

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Education gadfly Gerald Bracey lets it fly in his last annual report on the state of public education before his untimely death. He addresses three myths: that high-quality schools, alone, will break the education gap, that high quality standards are the key to academic success, and that mayoral control is better than local board governance.

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Interestingly, Deborah Meiers even agrees with this analysis.... Curriculum is king -- not standards.

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Ability grouping is the norm in taekwondo, as well as many other realms of our lives (music, sports). Why not in schools too? Kevin Riley makes a good argument for grouping students based on standards.

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Great study from the Fordham people that takes the test scores of 36 schools and sees how those schools would fair in 28 different states. The patchwork of standards and variety of expectations means that we don't really know who's doing a really good job, and who's blowing it.

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Minnesota's math standards help students achieve on TIMSS because they are clear, focused, and hone in on deep understanding in a few, critical math topics.

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Chester Finn weighs in with some common sense on NCLB.

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Daniel Willingham -- "Ask the Cognitive Scientist" -- explores the difficulty of creating tests based on subject-area standards. He then suggests that a more effective and accurate approach is to "make the expectations more comprehensive" -- i.e. base tests on an actual curriculum instead of standards.

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Check out the ELA standards for all 50 states.

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Five years ago, California decided to require all high school students take algebra in order to graduate. It sounded like a good idea.... But since then, the number of college students requiring remedial math instruction has increased significantly. Why? (Sacramento Bee, May 12, 2008)

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Proficiency standards in reading and math vary wildly between US states. Paul Peterson and Rick Hess examine the disparities and rank states. Only three (South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Missouri) get an "A" in reading and math. (Summer 2008 issue)

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NMSG (which includes members from the NCTM as well as academic mathematicians) issued this paper, which outlines five key guidelines for math standards in elementary education.

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