Carol Burris

Principal at South Side High School

Blogger for the Washington Post

Carol Burris, Ed.D., has been the principal of South Side High School in Rockville Centre, New York, since 2000. She was named the 2013 NASSP New York High School Principal of the Year and the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the New York State School Administrators Association. In addition to leading her diverse suburban high school, which is renowned for giving all students a challenging curriculum, Carol has authored or co-authored three books as well as numerous journal articles on equity and excellence in schools. Carol is a staunch advocate of school and classroom desegregation. At the same time, she is an outspoken opponent of many of the Race to the Top reforms, including the Common Core. Carol frequently blogs on Valerie Strauss’s “Answersheet,” which appears in the Washington Post.

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Embrace The Common Core

With Carol Burris, Frederick Hess, Carmel Martin, Michael Petrilli

September 9, 2014

In K-12 education, there is nothing more controversial than the Common Core State Standards, national academic standards in English and Math. Adopted by more than 40 states, they were developed, in part, to address concerns that American students were falling behind their foreign counterparts and graduating high school without the necessary skills for college and the workforce. But is this the reform we’ve been looking for? Has the federal government overreached and saddled our schools with standards that have been…

Embrace The Common Core

With Carol Burris, Frederick Hess, Carmel Martin, Michael Petrilli

September 9, 2014

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