It seems that National Education Association (NEA) President Dennis Van Roekel is willing to ignore the “forest” of the spectrum of top-down, punitive, privatizer-friendly, anti-democratic, community-school-destroying reforms in favor of the “tree” of his narrow focus on issues regarding concerns over specific items in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). In this January 14, 2014, Education Week article, Van Roekel maintains that he has yet to hear anyone offer disagreement over CCSS specifics. He also “challenges” CCSS opponents to offer “a better alternative” to a set of standards he defends yet refers to as “a guess”:... ...Well, Van Roekel, since apparently no one else across our nation has been able to respond to your questions (tongue in cheek), allow me....READ ON... atthechalkface/2014/01/18/lets-help-neas-dennis-van-roekel-forsake-his-common-core-guessing/
Posted on: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 05:14:40 +0000
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