Sandra Stotsky

Sandra Stotsky is retired from the University of Arkansas, where she held the chair in 21st Century Teacher Quality. She served as Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 1999-2003.

Items by Sandra Stotsky

How Common Core-Aligned Tests Are Turning College Students Into High School Students

March 22, 2019, 8:13 EDT

How Common Core Is Destroying Training of Teachers

February 20, 2019, 23:28 EDT

Should Elementary Teachers Learn How To Teach Reading or Just Wing It?

January 9, 2019, 17:29 EDT

New Pioneer Report Right on Common Core Damage, But Massachusetts Still Needs Standards-Based Reforms in Education

November 26, 2018, 12:58 EDT

Why We Don’t Learn Much from (the Few) Effective Education Policies or Programs

October 17, 2018, 15:40 EDT

How To Become Secretary of Education Without Really Doing Anything

August 25, 2018, 15:55 EDT

Why Aren’t Magnet Schools More on Educrats’ Radar?

August 15, 2018, 14:09 EDT

When You Set Lousy Goals in Education, You Get Lousy Results

July 9, 2018, 13:09 EDT

Want To Empower Parents in Public Education?  Here Are the Bureaucracies That Have To Go

June 9, 2018, 8:25 EDT

Is Common Core Racist?  Check Out The Results

May 9, 2018, 20:35 EDT

Why Educational Policies Fail:  The Elephant in the Family Room

May 3, 2018, 20:57 EDT

Time for Feds To Come Clean on ‘Nation’s Report Card’ Tests

April 10, 2018, 21:58 EDT

Should Local Taxpayers Pay for an Incoherent English Curriculum?

March 28, 2018, 17:16 EDT

Want To Improve Teacher Training?  Stop Playing Games With Teacher Standards

February 24, 2018, 11:31 EDT

How You Lost Control of Your Local Schools

January 27, 2018, 3:02 EDT

Common Core Is Dead, Long Live Common Core

January 23, 2018, 13:40 EDT

Did Teachers Really Used To Make Kids Memorize Without Understanding?

December 7, 2017, 17:05 EDT

Are Education Achievement Gaps Based on Poverty?

November 26, 2017, 14:05 EDT

How to Fool the Public, One Education Test At A Time

November 15, 2017, 15:23 EDT

‘Diversity’:  The Major Obstacle in Strengthening Teacher Quality

October 24, 2017, 14:53 EDT

Congress on Education:  If It Don’t Work, Don’t Fix It

October 13, 2017, 7:16 EDT

Want the Feds To Run Local Public Schools?  Make ‘Em Get A Permission Slip from Parents

September 21, 2017, 10:19 EDT

Dumbing Down What Students Read Didn’t Make Them Any Smarter

September 1, 2017, 11:10 EDT

Is There Anything Common Core Gets Right?

July 7, 2017, 21:12 EDT

Why Can’t We Raise Academic Requirements for K-12 Teachers?

June 11, 2017, 20:23 EDT

Why Spend Billions on Professional Development for Teachers?

May 21, 2017, 12:43 EDT

The Federal Government’s War on Local School Boards

May 7, 2017, 10:58 EDT

How Do You Sell Common Core Standards and Tests To Unwilling Parents? Hide Them

April 19, 2017, 11:34 EDT

Why Charter Schools Aren’t a Magic Trick for Poor Kids

April 14, 2017, 14:41 EDT

How Dumb Do We Want Prospective Teachers To Be?

April 10, 2017, 10:07 EDT

Lies They Told You About Common Core

March 21, 2017, 16:20 EDT

Why Accountability to Fed-u-crats Is Damaging Student Achievement

March 3, 2017, 8:28 EDT

Who Should Be In Charge of the U.S. Department of Education and Why?

January 30, 2017, 17:08 EDT

Do Parents Matter? Questions Senators Should Ask Education Nominee Betsy DeVos

January 14, 2017, 12:54 EDT

Why parents are concerned about Trump’s appointment for USED

December 13, 2016, 8:00 EDT

The next education frontier: Classroom choice

November 21, 2016, 8:00 EDT

Test-based accountability: The best we can do?

October 19, 2016, 11:27 EDT

Mass. activists want high school history to stress political activism over founding principles

August 26, 2016, 6:12 EDT

A rose by any other name …

August 1, 2016, 11:05 EDT

Our judiciary failed our public schools – and our democracy

July 8, 2016, 12:20 EDT

The curriculum is changing, once again without public discussion

July 1, 2016, 6:21 EDT

Were Common Core’s ELA Standards written by charlatans? Sure seems so. 

June 16, 2016, 6:25 EDT

Reform teacher licensing now

June 8, 2016, 8:50 EDT

Are knowledge and facts no longer relevant?

June 1, 2016, 6:22 EDT

The Common Core journalism blackout

May 24, 2016, 6:16 EDT

Spreading the Massachusetts ‘education miracle’

May 6, 2016, 6:14 EDT

Hey Ho! Hey Ho! Western Civ. has to go! In Massachusetts, too

April 9, 2016, 8:25 EDT

School choice: Fig leaf of the pro-Common Core Right

April 1, 2016, 6:16 EDT

Acts of deception have morphed into bullying

March 28, 2016, 6:32 EDT

Opting out: A civic duty, not civil disobedience

March 16, 2016, 6:39 EDT

To improve teacher quality, ditch Common Core

February 24, 2016, 7:04 EDT

The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers

February 3, 2016, 14:27 EDT

How Massachusetts — not the feds — improved student achievement

January 19, 2016, 6:02 EDT

Deliberately deceiving the public on Common Core

January 8, 2016, 6:07 EDT