The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 02.26.12

Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for o2.26.12.  The visual soundbites from Twitter:

• One of THE BEST articles explaining how common core will empty out taxpayers' pockets via higher property taxes.  Why aren't you hearing how these underfunded mandates will be paid for by state legislators?  Obama Education scheme will hit local property taxes. http://p.ost.im/p/exEF7u

• Following up on the last tweet, governors are delusional about Federal control of education and the expense.  And snarky, too.  Catch the comment from the Connecticut governor.  The taxpayer is paying for it financially and constitutionally for this misguided way of thinking. Blog: Governors Talk Funding, Federal Role in Education http://bit.ly/Aszmxx  

• Add the United States to the list. Is this the method to hook us into an international curriculum?....It's not just the UK that is having a crisis in maths education. Japan is too. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T120225003501.htm

• If you're a teacher, just be sure you teach the gifted kids....Teachers divided over validity of scorecards: “If you're saying that my students are successful, that's good eno... http://bit.ly/xirkMJ 

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Today's "educational thought for the week" concerns tragedy and the human spirit.  Do you wonder how the human spirit will be measured on a data set?  Maybe US schools aren't concerned about wisdom, it's "just the facts", ma'am.

Trauma sometimes opens way to growth / Scientists examine traditional idea that wisdom can come from hardship and loss