My Insider’s Perspective on New York’s Regents Exams
As someone who has served on three NYSED committees, I have an insider’s perspective on the process of making Regents Exams.
Revisions to Common Core Standards Released
Today, the New York State Education Department released revisions to the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics.
EdWeek Article on EngageNY
An article published in EdWeek today describes a RAND study of teachers who use the EngageNY web site’s materials for…
Google Classroom Review
Google Classroom is a powerful collaborative tool but has frustrating bugs and surprising limitations. Google Classroom is a free learning…
It Takes a Mathematician to Criticize the Value-Added Model
Most mathematical models didn’t get the 2016 election right. Why would we trust them to measure teacher performance? In his…
My Article on Proposed Common Core Changes
Today, Math for America (MfA) published an article that I wrote on the proposed changes to the Common Core math…