More Common Core, Less Common Sense?Mr. Principal and Mrs. Teacher,I frequently post excerpts from my daughter’s homework on my facebook feed asking for help or reactions to the assignments. I have taught secondary school and was a librarian. I currently tutor high school ESL students, teach test…
You’ve really helped me with my daughters common core math. I’ve opened my mind to new way of looking at things… which as a developer you would have thought I was doing all along! Oops! Thanks for your insights! Keep it up!
Who Supports Common Core?The short answer to the question of who supports Common Core is the people who are paid to support it. Bill Gates…
Uncommon Sense to the CoreI was talking to my neighbor the other day. On the front stoop, she introduced me to her friend who was visiting — a middle-school librarian from Maryland.I told her I worked with the NEA, and we talked a little shop. I asked, “So what are you doing to…
We must stay the course and prepare our children to meet world-class Common Core standardsEarlier this month students and families in California started receiving results from the new state test based on the Common Core standards. It’s been interesting to hear some…
Is Common Core an iPhone or a Yugo?Bill Gates recently spoke at self-promoted Education Forum in Spokane, Washington. He and Melinda…
Praise God, you get it! I wish your last paragraph could be used in sky writing over every school district.
Millennials Will Never Be Confined to a Common CoreAs a tutor for the next generation of college students, I work daily to bridge the gap between the demands of ACT/SAT and the evolution of the Millennial Mind, as it adapts to a continual stream of media. That bridge currently has shaky…
You’re Smarter Than You ThinkA man named Isaac once said “If I have seen further, it is because I stood on the shoulders of GIANTS.”
