Tag: Andrea Neal

Proposed Indiana Social Studies Standards: A Step Down!

March 9, 2014 4 Comments
Proposed Indiana Social Studies Standards: A Step Down!

If you haven’t heard that the Indiana State Board of Education is scheduled to vote this coming Wednesday, March 12, 2013, on new proposed Social Studies Standards, you aren’t alone.  Even though we are fairly watchful, it was not until last week that we discovered this information.  Upon googling it this morning, guess what?  As […]

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Veteran Teacher Gives Common Core a Thumbs Down

February 4, 2013 0 Comments
Veteran Teacher Gives Common Core a Thumbs Down

Last week syndicated columnist, Andrea Neal, an adjunct fellow with the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, wrote an excellent Common Core article, “Why would we lower our standards?,” which was featured in newspapers around the state.  Neal’s article starts out with a hard-hitting bang: Plenty of good reasons exist for Indiana to drop out of the Common […]

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