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Alliance Senior Fellow Robert Rothman Highlights Common Core Standards in...
In a Special Report on Education for Washington Monthly, Robert Rothman, senior fellow at the Alliance for Excellent Education, discusses the unification of American educational standards under the...
View ArticleAfternoon Announcements: May 31, 2012
The big news at the Alliance today is the release of our latest report, Culture Shift: Teaching in a Learner-Centered Environment Powered by Digital Learning. The report details what educators and...
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National Research Council Validates Shift to ‘Deeper Learning’
Since 2010, the Alliance for Excellent Education has been working to develop and promote policies that support deeper learning—deep content knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge to think...
View ArticleRobert Rothman: The ins and outs of Common Core State Standards
“Humble standards lead to great innovations,” Bob Rothman, senior fellow at the Alliance, says of the new common core state standards, adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Writing in...
View ArticleCommon Core success dependent on materials, textbooks
In 1985, the California State Board of Education rejected every science textbook submitted for statewide adoption. The following year, the board did the same for mathematics textbooks. Why? According...
View ArticleFiction (and nonfiction) about the Common Core State Standards
Do the Common Core State Standards mean the end of literature in schools? To read some comments in the news media, one might get the impression that the standards will drive Mark Twain and Shakespeare...
View ArticleAre you smarter than an 8th grader - from 1895?
For years, a document purported to be an eight grade exam from near the turn of the 20th century has floated around the Internet and been delivered to inboxes everywhere. The exam, which was uncovered...
View ArticleRobert Rothman: Deeper learning and the Common Core
High schools in the International networks– a group of 14 high schools, most of them based in New York City – aren’t waiting for full implementation of the Common Core State Standards to teach their...
View ArticlePresident Obama Sees Deeper Learning in Action
On Thursday, May 9, President Obama went to Austin, Texas, to talk about jobs, skills, and opportunity. His first stop was a school: Manor New Tech High School. That was no accident. As the President...
View ArticleDeeper Learning Is Deep Knowledge
Tom Loveless’s recent commentary on deeper learning confused me. What he described does not resemble any example of deeper learning I have seen, or the kind of learning the Alliance for Excellent...
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