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

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

January 9, 2019, 17:29 EST

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

November 26, 2018, 12:58 EST

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

October 17, 2018, 15:40 EST

How To Become Secretary of Education Without Really Doing Anything

August 25, 2018, 15:55 EST

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

August 15, 2018, 14:09 EST

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

July 9, 2018, 13:09 EST

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

June 9, 2018, 8:25 EST

Is Common Core Racist?  Check Out The Results

May 9, 2018, 20:35 EST

Why Educational Policies Fail:  The Elephant in the Family Room

May 3, 2018, 20:57 EST

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

April 10, 2018, 21:58 EST

Should Local Taxpayers Pay for an Incoherent English Curriculum?

March 28, 2018, 17:16 EST

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

February 24, 2018, 11:31 EST

How You Lost Control of Your Local Schools

January 27, 2018, 3:02 EST

Common Core Is Dead, Long Live Common Core

January 23, 2018, 13:40 EST

Did Teachers Really Used To Make Kids Memorize Without Understanding?

December 7, 2017, 17:05 EST

Are Education Achievement Gaps Based on Poverty?

November 26, 2017, 14:05 EST

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

November 15, 2017, 15:23 EST

‘Diversity’:  The Major Obstacle in Strengthening Teacher Quality

October 24, 2017, 14:53 EST

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

October 13, 2017, 7:16 EST

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

September 21, 2017, 10:19 EST

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

September 1, 2017, 11:10 EST

Is There Anything Common Core Gets Right?

July 7, 2017, 21:12 EST

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

June 11, 2017, 20:23 EST

Why Spend Billions on Professional Development for Teachers?

May 21, 2017, 12:43 EST

The Federal Government’s War on Local School Boards

May 7, 2017, 10:58 EST

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

April 19, 2017, 11:34 EST

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

April 14, 2017, 14:41 EST

How Dumb Do We Want Prospective Teachers To Be?

April 10, 2017, 10:07 EST

Lies They Told You About Common Core

March 21, 2017, 16:20 EST

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

March 3, 2017, 8:28 EST

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

January 30, 2017, 17:08 EST

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

January 14, 2017, 12:54 EST

Why parents are concerned about Trump’s appointment for USED

December 13, 2016, 8:00 EST

The next education frontier: Classroom choice

November 21, 2016, 8:00 EST

Test-based accountability: The best we can do?

October 19, 2016, 11:27 EST

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

August 26, 2016, 6:12 EST

A rose by any other name …

August 1, 2016, 11:05 EST

Our judiciary failed our public schools – and our democracy

July 8, 2016, 12:20 EST

The curriculum is changing, once again without public discussion

July 1, 2016, 6:21 EST

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

June 16, 2016, 6:25 EST

Reform teacher licensing now

June 8, 2016, 8:50 EST

Are knowledge and facts no longer relevant?

June 1, 2016, 6:22 EST

The Common Core journalism blackout

May 24, 2016, 6:16 EST

Spreading the Massachusetts ‘education miracle’

May 6, 2016, 6:14 EST

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

April 9, 2016, 8:25 EST

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

April 1, 2016, 6:16 EST

Acts of deception have morphed into bullying

March 28, 2016, 6:32 EST

Opting out: A civic duty, not civil disobedience

March 16, 2016, 6:39 EST

To improve teacher quality, ditch Common Core

February 24, 2016, 7:04 EST

The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers

February 3, 2016, 14:27 EST

How Massachusetts — not the feds — improved student achievement

January 19, 2016, 6:02 EST

Deliberately deceiving the public on Common Core

January 8, 2016, 6:07 EST