I wonder if the Common Core is everything people say it is. This opinion piece makes me wonder whether its another step toward bland, uninspiring education. From the piece: "There are already hundreds of for-profit and nonprofit providers of “agnostic texts” sorted by grade level being used in English classrooms across the country. There is also a lot of discussion among teachers over whether lessons align well with the new standards, but far less discussion regarding which texts are being chosen for students to read and why. In a sense the students, with their curiosity, sadness, confusion and knowledge deficits, are left out of the equation. They are on the receiving end of lessons planned for a language-skills learning abstraction."
Posted on: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 16:38:59 +0000
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