Wednesday, October 16, 2013

COMMON CORE – TESTIMONY


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. My View: This is Why I Oppose Common Core. Desert News. July 24, 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
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, Invited Testimony for Kansas on Common Core. February 14, 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 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. “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 Wisconsin Bill AB 558,” February 15, 2012.
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.
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. “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. “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.
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. “Out of one, many,” Arkansas Democrat Gazette, June 21st, 2008
 
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