Policymakers have long sought to raise expectations for students through standards-based
reform. I examine the extent to which the Common Core State Content Standards (CC) …

This essay is a response to a paper by Avery and Hains that raises questions about the often
unintended effects of knowledge standardization in an educational setting. While many K-12 …

This multiple case study focused on the perception of teachers implementing a problem
solving strategy called design thinking to help students master the Common Core Standards …

A local urban school district recently reported that 86% of third graders did not demonstrate
proficiency on the Math Standardized Test, which challenges students to solve problems …

Rater-mediated activities in educational research occur when an expert judge or rater
utilizes an instrument to judge persons or items and generates scale scores. Scale scores …

A longstanding history of curriculum in the United States verifies ongoing struggles in
curricular decision-making, where questions such as “What is knowledge, who gets to …

Purpose: Professional learning communities (PLCs) have provided a popular means by
which schools have used structured collaboration to improve student outcomes. For this …

The relationship that is established between the principal and teacher influences the type of
learning environment the school has, thereby affecting how students learn in the classroom …

A longstanding history of curriculum in the United States verifies ongoing struggles in
curricular decision-making, where questions such as “What is knowledge, who gets to …

There can be little dispute that the past two decades have seen an accelerated change in
the hyper-connected parts of both developing and developed worlds. The term VUCA …