Student Failure as a Learning Tool

Posted by Michael Haran on Apr 25, 2014 in Assessment | 0 comments

Much is now being debated about the new Common Core assessment standards. In a recent School Librarian Journal article by Paige Jaeger (The Wrong Villain: Critics Should Focus on Race to the Top not on Common Core 1/20/2014) Jaeger pointed out that critics of the common core initiative should instead be focusing the Race to the Top $4.35 billion competitive grant program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education “to reform schools, with a focus on measuring student success and holding teachers and principals accountable as a strategy to...