Sandra Stotsky is a nationally-known advocate of standards-based reform and strong academic standards and assessments for students and teachers. Her research ranges from the quality of preK-12 standards, teacher preparation programs, and teacher licensure tests to the strengths and weaknesses of high school English curricula.
She served on the National Validation Committee for the Common Core State Systemic Initiative (2009-2010) and on the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2006-2008), co-authoring its final report as well as two of its task group reports. She also served on the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (2006-2010). From 1999-2003, she was Senior Associate Commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Education, where she directed complete revisions of the state's preK-12 standards for all major subjects, its licensing regulations for teachers, administrators, and teacher training schools, and its tests for teacher licensure. In addition, she planned and directed major research projects on middle school mathematics education, research reports on various curricular areas in preK-12, and statewide conferences on history education, character education, mathematics education, and Structured English Immersion.
From 1984 to 2000, she was a research associate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education affiliated with the Philosophy of Education Research Center (PERC). For 12 years, she directed a summer institute on civic education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, sponsored by the Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation. For six years, she directed a We the People program, co-sponsored by the Filene Foundation and the Center for Civic Education in California. From 1991-1997, she served as editor of Research in the Teaching of English, the research journal sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English. On a consultant basis from 1992 to 2002, she worked for the U.S. Information Service and the U.S. State Department on the development of civic education programs in Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, and Romania with educators and ministry officials in Eastern Europe. She has taught elementary school, French and German at the high school level, and graduate courses in reading, children's literature, writing pedagogy, and English language arts standards.
Her major publications include 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). Her research and writing address many areas and disciplines in education.
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- Sandra Stotsky. "The Serpent in Finland's Garden of Equity. Policy Brief. Boston: Pioneer Institute,". March, 2012.
- Sandra Stotsky. "Invited Testimony for a Hearing on a South Carolina Bill to Amend the 1976 Code". February 16, 2012.
- Sandra Stotsky. "Invited Testimony for a Hearing on Wisconsin Bill AB 558". February 15, 2012.
- Sandra Stotsky. "Competition and Choice Bring Reform, but there's a Problem". February 9, 2012.
- Sandra Stotsky. "Invited Testimony for a Hearing on Indiana Senate Bill No. 373". January 25, 2012.
- Sandra Stotsky. The Last Word: An Interview with Sandra Stotsky-A Call for Challenge and Coherence,with Joe Hebling and Catherine A. Little. May 2011.
- Sandra Stotsky. "The Stealth Curriculum" in Sarah Stern (Ed.) Saudi Arabia and the Global Islamic Terrorist Network, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 65-80.
- Sandra Stotsky. Tailoring to Students' Interests, Room for Debate, The New York Times, August 23, 2011 .
- Sandra Stotsky. "Ten Steps to a Better ESEA (with apologies to the Fordham Institute): How to reauthorize ESEA so that it might actually upgrade K-12 education", April 23, 2011.
- Sandra Stotsky. Presentation to Arkansas Association of Educational Administrators: How to Implement Common Core's Literacy Standards to Enhance Civic Literacy in Arkansas. August 2, 2011.
- Sandra Stotsky. Heritage Foundation Event: National Standards and Tests: An Unprecedented Federal Overreach. July 27, 2011.
- Sandra Stotsky. Heritage Foundation Event: National Standards and Tests: An Unprecedented Federal Overreach. July 27, 2011.
- Sandra Stotsky. Testimony for a Hearing on House Bill No. 2923 April 14, 2011.
- Sandra Stotsky. Literary Study in Grades 9, 10, 11: A National Survey (FORUM, a publication of the ALSCW). No. 4, Fall 2010.
- Sandra Stotsky. Why I Didn't Sign Off on Common Core's Final Standards. Letter to Gene Wilhoit and Dane Linn of CCSI, June 6, 2011
- 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. "Literacy Study in Grades 9, 10, and 11 in Arkansas," March 22, 2010.
- Sandra Stotsky. "National Academic Standards: The First Test," New York Times, 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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