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Monday, February 25, 2013

Teacher Slams Common Core State (sic) Standards

A Common Core exemplar explained by a teacher from 2012.  Has anything changed? From the Washington Post, Teacher: One (maddening) day working with the Common Core:

The bottom line: The Common Core exemplar we worked with was intellectually limiting, shallow in scope, and uninteresting. I don’t want my lessons to be any of those things.

Find out the reasons why here.  Is Lincoln turning over in his grave?
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