Sandra Stotsky, Ed. D.
University of Arkansas – Dept of Education Reform
Scroll down for a list of testimony and articles by Sandra Stotsky regarding Common Core.
Sandra Stotsky is credited
with developing one of the country’s strongest sets of academic standards for
K-12 students as well as the strongest academic standards and licensure tests
for prospective teachers while serving as Senior Associate Commissioner in the
Massachusetts Department of Education from 1999-2003. She is also known
nation-wide for her in-depth analyses of the problems in Common Core’s English
language arts standards.
Her current research ranges
from the deficiencies in teacher preparation programs and teacher licensure
tests to the deficiencies in the K-12 reading curriculum and the question of
gender bias in the curriculum. She is regularly invited to testify or submit testimony
to state boards of education and state legislators on bills addressing
licensure tests, licensure standards, and Common Core’s standards (e.g., Utah, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, South Carolina, and Texas).
She currently serves on
several committees for the International Dyslexia Association and on the
advisory board for Pioneer Institute’s Center for School Reform. She served on
the National Validation Committee for the Common Core State Systemic Initiative
(2009-2010), on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2006-2008),
co-authoring its final report as well as two of its task group reports, on the
Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (2006-2010), and on
the Steering Committee in 2003-2004 for the framework for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress reading assessments for 2009 onward.
Her major publications
include The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum (Rowman
& Littlefield, 2012); Literary Study in Grades 9, 10, and 11: A National Survey
(Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers, 2010); What’s at Stake
in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers (Peter Lang,
2000); and Losing Our Language (Free Press, 1999, reprinted by Encounter Books,
2002).
Recent Professional
Activities
Comments
on the Florida Common Core English Language Arts Standards: Report prepared
for a hearing in Tampa, Florida, October 15, 2013
Common
Core’s English Language Arts Standards: Testimony for a legislative hearing
in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, October 16, 2013
Sandra Stotksy on “Will Common Core Dumb Down Our Kids,” Tell It Like It
Is with Kathy Benuck, October 3, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky on Common
Core on Al
Jazeera TV, Saturday night, September 28, 2013.
R. James Milgram and Sandra
Stotsky. Lowering
the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM,
Pioneer Institute White Paper, #103, September 2013.
Private
reception for Sandra Stotsky in Columbia, South Carolina,September
20, 2013
Sandra Stotsky on Drew Steele’s Talk
Show, Fort Myers/Naples, Florida
Sandra Stotsky. Common
Core’s Invalid Validation Committee. Paper presented for a conference at
University of Notre Dame. September 9, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. “Invited
Testimony for a Hearing in Michigan on Common Core.” August 14, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. “New
York State Test Results: Uninterpretable But a Portent of the Future,”
August 12, 2013. Pioneeer Institute Rock the Schoolhouse blog.
Sandra Stotsky. Invited
Testimony for a Hearing on Common Core in Indiana. August 5, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. My
View: This is Why I Oppose Common Core. Desert News. July 24, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. Kentucky
Needs Higher Expectations for its Students: Testimony Submitted to the Kentucky
Board of Education, July 2013
Sandra Stotsky.
Invited Testimony for a Hearing on the Implementation of Common Core’s
Standards in Arkansas, July 22, 2013
Sandra Stotsky. “4
Steps to Upgrade Teacher & Administrator Prep Programs.” Pioneer
Institute. July 18, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. “How
Long Before Duncan and the Media Speak Out Honestly?” Pioneer Institute.
July, 10, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. “Revise
or Reject: The Common Core’s Serious Flaws.” National Association of
Scholars. July 3, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. ”Common
Core’s Cloudy Vision of College Readiness in Math.” Pioneer Institute. July
1, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. “More
Than One Fatal Flaw in Common Core’s ELA Standards.” Pioneer Institute.
June 26, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky and Jane
Robbins. Pulling
Back the Curtain on Common Core. The Blaze. June 27, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. What
To Do Once Common Core Is Halted. Pioneer Institute. June 20, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky. Why
Do They Lie? And Why Do Others Believe Them? Pioneer Institute. June
18, 2013.
Panel
Discussion on Common Core at Thousand
Oaks, California,
June 10, 2013
Forum on Common Core at
the Worcester, Massachusetts Public Library, June 5,
2013
Sandra Stotksy. Wanted:
Internationally Benchmarked Standards in Mathematics, Science, and English
Language Arts. May 2013.
Interview
with Sandra Stotsky. Education Views. April 2013.
Robert Pondiscio, Gilbert T.
Sewall, and Sandra Stotsky. Foreward by Walter A. McDougall. Shortchanging
the Future: The Crisis of History and Civics in American Schools.
Pioneer Institute White Paper 100, April 2013.
Sandra Stotsky, “Sandra
Stotsky Discusses the Common Core (Video).” The Pioneer Institute. April 9,
2013.
Sandra Stotsky,
Testimony for a Hearing in Arkansas for HB1590. March 28, 2013. (Appendix
A and Appendix B)
Sandra Stotsky, Invited
Testimony for a Hearing in Michigan on House Bill 4276. March 20,
2013.
Sandra Stotsky, Testimony
for a Hearing on House Bill #616 and Senate Bill #210: Bills to prohibit the
State Board of Education from adopting and implementing Common Core’s Standards
and Tests. March 6, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky, Invited
Testimony for a Hearing on SB 167: A bill on Common Core’s Standards and Tests.
February 28, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky, Invited
Testimony for Kansas on Common Core. February 14, 2013.
Sandra Stotsky, An
English Language Arts Curriculum Framework for American Public Schools: A Model,
February 2013
Sandra Stotsky. 2013. Why
Do Education Schools Have Such Low Standards? Essay written for
Minding the Campus.
Anders Lewis and Sandra
Stotsky. 2013. The Rise
and Fall of the Study of American History in Massachusetts. Pioneer
Institute White Paper No. 97.
Sandra Stotsky. 2013. Literature
or Technical Manuals: Who Should Be Teaching What, Where, and Why?. Paper
presented at The Constitutional Coalition’s Educational Policy Conference.
Sandra Stotsky. 2013. Why
We Must Raise the Bar for Admission to an Education School. Paper given at
the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy.
Sandra Stotsky. Testimony
before the Indiana Senate Committee on Education and Career Development. January
16, 2013
Sandra Stotsky and George
Denny. 2012. Single-sex
classrooms and reading achievement: An exploratory study. Journal of School
Choice: Research, Theory, and Reform, 6 (4), 439-464.
Sandra Stotsky. Common
Core Standards’ Devastating Impact on Literary Study and Analytical Thinking.
The Heritage Foundation Issue Brief #3800, December 11, 2012.
Sandra Stotsky. Invited
Testimony on the Low Quailty of the Common Core Standards. Testimony
Submitted to Colorado’s
State Board of Education, December 6, 2012
Stotsky, Sandra. “Lessons
to Learn: Teachers’ teachers responsible, too.” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, October 6, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra et
al. ”Good
Citizenship: To Preserve Republic, Teach Civics.” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, September
19, 2012.
Mark Bauerlein and Sandra
Stotsky. (September 2012). How
Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk. Pioneer
Institute White Paper No. 89.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “How
Common Core Standards Have Begun to Damage the School Curriculum,” Heritage
Foundation, April 17, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “Invited
Comments on the Common Core Standards to the House Committe on Education in
South Carolina,” South Carolina, April 18, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “The Serpent
in Finland’s Garden of Equity,” Journal of School Choice: Research,
Theory, and Reform, 6(2), 295-300.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “Invited
Testimony for a Hearing on a South Carolina Bill to Amend 1976 Code,”
February 16, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “Invited
Testimony for a Hearing on Wisconsin Bill AB 558,” February 15, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “Invited
Testimony for a hearing on Indiana Senate Bill No. 373,” January 25, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “Competition
and Choice Bring Reform, but there’s a Problem,” February 9, 2012.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “The Last Word: An
Interview with Sandra Stotsky–A Call for Challenge and Coherence (May 2011).
Joe Helbling and Catherine A. Little.”
Stotsky, Sandra. 2011. “The Stealth Curriculum,” in
Sarah Stern (Ed.)Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network, New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 65-80.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2011. “Tailoring
to Students’ Interests”. Room for Debate, New York Times, August 23, 2011.
Stotsky, Sandra. 2011. “Ten Steps to a Better
ESEA (with apologies to the Fordham Institute): How to reauthorize ESEA so that
it might actualy upgrade K-12 education. April 23, 2011.”
Stotsky, Sandra. 2012. “Invited
Testimony for a Hearing on Indiana Senate Bill No. 373 to Void Any Action Taken
by the State Board of Education to Adopt the Common Core standards as the
state’s standards,” January 25, 2012.
Sandra Stotsky. How
to Implement Common Core’s Literacy Standards to Enhance Civic Literacy in
Arkansas. Presentation to Arkansas Association of Educational
Administrators: August 2, 2011
Sandra Stotsky, Heritage
Foundation Event, July 27, 2011.
Sandra Stotsky. “Testimony
in Favor of Bill on Texas State Sovereignty over Curriculum Standards,
Assessements, and Student Information,”Testimony for a Hearing on House
Bill No. 2923, April 14, 2011
Sandra Stotsky. “Literary Study in Grades 9,10, and 11:
A National Survey” A Publication of the ALSCW, Number 4, Fall 2010.
Sandra Stotsky and Ze’ev
Wurman. “Common
Core’s Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade,” A Pioneer Institute White
Paper, No. 65, July 2010.
Sandra Stotsky. “Literary
Study in Grades 9, 10, and 11 in Arkansas,” March 22, 2010.
Sandra Stotsky. “National
Academic Standards: The First Test,” September 22, 2009.
Sandra Stotsky. “Teachers’
Pet,” The Weekly Standard, Volume 015, Issue 01, September 12, 2009.
Sandra Stotsky. “New
Guidelines for Teacher Training,” September 1, 2009.
Sandra Stotsky. “The
Academic Quality of Teachers: A Civil Rights Issue,” Commentary, Education
Week, June 26, 2009.
Sandra Stotsky. “Licensure
Tests for Special Education Teachers: How Well They Assess Knowledge of Reading
Instruction and Mathematics,” June 26, 2009.
Invited written statement
submitted to the New Jersey State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights. “Teacher
Licensing Standards, Teacher Quality, and Student Achievement in Urban
Schools,” May 2009
Sandra Stotsky. “Suggested
Indices of Teacher Quality for Arkansas: A Position Paper,” Presented at
the Office for Education Policy’s Conference “Preparing Highly Qualified
Teachers for Arkansas”, April 2009
Sandra Stotsky. “The
Bitter Fruit of School Reform,” The New York Times, April 28, 2009
Sandra Stotsky. “The global achievement
muddle,” Northwest Arkansas Times, March 17th, 2009
Sandra Stotsky. “What
boys are reading,” L. Sax (Ed.), Gender Differences in Learning and School;
an Online Special Edition, January 15th, 2009
Sandra Stotsky. “Licensure
Tests for Special Education Teachers: How Well They Assess Knowledge of Reading
Instruction and Mathematics,” Education Working Paper Archive, November 7,
2008
Sandra Stotsky. “Out of one, many,”
Arkansas Democrat Gazette, June 21st, 2008
Sandra Stotsky. “Teacher
Licensure Tests: Their Relationship to Mathematics Teachers’ Academic
Competence and Student Achievement in Mathematics,” Education Working Paper
Archive, September 5, 2007
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