Teaching Higher

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas J. Kane proposes an evaluation of textbooks and other instructional materials in the following Brookings Institution report. They say never judge a book by its cover. We need to start judging textbooks and other instructional...

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane shares findings from a recent report, Teaching Higher: Educators’ Perspectives on Common Core Implementation, in the following article by Education Week. Over the past few years, the Common Core State Standards have been...

CEPR's recent report, Teaching Higher: Educators’ Perspectives on Common Core Implementation, is highlighted in the following article from Forbes. To keep up with the demands of the new Common Core curriculum standards, teachers have made major changes to...

Findings from the Teaching Higher: Educators’ Perspectives on Common Core Implementation Report are used to examine instructional materials in the classroom in the following Education Week blog post. A new study found that teachers are mainly relying on...

Findings from the Teaching Higher: Educators’ Perspectives on Common Core Implementation Report are featured in the following Education Week article. A new study of educators in five states finds that the Common Core State Standards have fostered...

Research Shows Teachers Embraced New Standards and Adjusted Instruction to Meet Higher Bar; Provides New Evidence on Strategies Related to Improved Student Performance. Cambridge, MA (February 9, 2016) – Today, researchers at the Center for Education...

CEPR Faculty Director Thomas Kane discusses the discrepancy between NAEP test scores in states that participate in Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) against those with...