How Washington State Adopted Rigorous Common Core Standards…Then Quietly Backpedaled

“Be afraid. Be very afraid,” is what I would have said to Washington State’s Class of 2019 students and their parents a year ago. In July of 2011, the Washington State Superintendent of Public Instruction adopted Common Core State Standards. Since then, assessments required for high school graduation have become more difficult. Five years after …

Show Me the Study: Local District Poised to Adopt Discovery High School Math Curricula

How did the Anacortes School District (ASD) decide to ditch their Holt Mathematics text book curricula for high school in the fall of 2014 and replace it with Mathematics Vision Project, a discovery style Integrated Math sequencing Open Educational Resource (OER) that consists of a collection of worksheets? The ASD mistakenly accepted the notion that Washington …

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