Tom Loveless: Why Common Core Failed
Tom Loveless is an experienced education researcher who taught sixth grade in California. He has long been skeptical of top-down solutions to classroom-level problems. In...
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Mercedes Schneider: The College Board and the Big Salaries It Pays
Total revenue in 2016 was $916M, just shy of one billion dollars, $3.3M of which derived from government grants. The greatest revenue generator was “AP...
Mercedes Schneider Reports on the College Board’s Big Goof with the SAT
I can just hear the thinking of the succubi at The College Board. As you all know, Gates had appointed Lord Coleman to be the...
Superintendent Michael Hynes: Time to Slay the College Board Monster!
Michael Hynes, Superintendent of the Patchogue-Medford School District on Long Island in New York, writes here about the tyranny of the College Board, which...
Michael Hynes: Time to Slay the College Board Dragon
Michael Hynes is Superintendent of the Patchogue-Medford School District on Long Island in New York State. He writes about his contempt for the College Board....
Reuters: David Coleman’s Redesign of the SAT to Align with Common Core=Chaos
Renee Dudley of Reuters has dug deep into a story that seldom reaches public view: the internal battle inside the College Board–sponsor of the SAT–that...
FBI Raids Home of SAT Whistle Blower
Mercedes Schneider writes here about the strange events surrounding Manuel Alfaro, an ex-College Board employee who has been complaining loudly about the defects of the...
Mercedes Schneider: SAT Whistle-Blower Calls Out Test Fraud
This is an astonishing post by Mercedes Schneider. She details the charges of a whistle blower at the College Board, who was hired by David...
Meet David Coleman: Master of the SAT and Architect of Common Core
Here is David Coleman, the arbiter of what America’s children should know and be able to do. This is quite a lofty perch. First,...
Rick Hess: What Common Core Could Learn from AP US History Flap
There were two big controversies over curriculum this past year. One got resolved by listening to critics and revising the original language. The other continues...