Sandra L Stotsky

Sandra Stotsky

Sandra Stotsky is Professor emerita in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and held the 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality.

Sandra Stotsky

Sandra Stotsky is Professor of Education Reform in the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas, and holds the 21st Century Chair in...

Sandra Stotsky

Sandra Stotsky is an advocate of standards-based reform and strong academic standards and assessments for students and teachers. She is now Professor of...

Common Ground on Common Core, Volume 2: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards

Volume 2, containing 5 essays from the full workWhen an ideologically diverse array of the nation’s top education activists and experts come together to speak out against the Common Core State Standards and related initiatives in education, the magnitude of the issue couldn’t be more clear. This sel...

The Russian Americans (Immigrant Experience)

This digital document is an article from Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, brought to you by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 6533 words. The article is delivered in...

Common Ground on Common Core, Volume 1: Voices from across the Political Spectrum Expose the Realities of the Common Core State Standards

Volume 1, containing 5 essays from the full work.When an ideologically diverse array of the nation’s top education activists and experts come together to speak out against the Common Core State Standards and related initiatives in education, the magnitude of the issue couldn’t be more clear. This se...

Spilled - A collection by the Dry River Poets

"Here are eight Arizona poets who've been working together for years honing their skills, poets committed to shaping the matter of their real lives into music-eight accomplished poets writing poems that are bell-clear, writing poems made out of the memories and passions that haunt them, the moments ...

What's at Stake in the K-12 Standards Wars: A Primer for Educational Policy Makers

The standards wars are another manifestation of the culture wars. Few educational policy makers understand the many disciplinary, pedagogical, and curricular issues occuring at the heart of the conflicts as states develop or revise their K-12 standards and standards-based assessments in the major su...

Losing Our Language: How Multiculturalism Undermines Our Children's Ability to Read, Write and Reason

Why do American students' reading and writing test scores continue to decline? Why does the achievement gap continue to grow between minority and other students? Poor teacher training, large class size, small budgets and other such answers have been proposed for these vexing questions. But Sandra St...

Losing Our Language:How Multic: How Multiculturalism Undermines Our Children's Ability to Read, Write and Reason [Paperback] [2002] (Author) Sandra Stotsky

Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core is Bad for America

For the first time in history Americans face the prospect of a unified set of national standards for K-12 education. While this goal sounds reasonable, and Common Core has been presented as a state-led effort, it is anything but. This book analyzes Common Core from the standpoint of its deleterious ...