Author Archive: Erin Tuttle
Close, but not too close, reading technique of the Common Core
Below is a post I did for Catholics for Classical Education. Please visit their site at www.catholicsforclassicaled.com. Over the last decades, a popular teaching style in English classes was to have students derive the meaning of a text by examining what it meant to them. This technique failed to have students determine the meaning or […]
College-and-Career-Ready Standards= 100% Common Core alignment
If you haven’t been to a State Board of Education meeting, I would highly recommend it. I attended a meeting where the Common Core standards and related assessments were on the agenda. Much of the focus was on how to create standards that meet the new federal requirement of “college-and-career-ready standards” and what assessments that […]
Is anyone going to talk about Kentucky’s NAEP scores?
When Indiana adopted the Common Core there was no test pilot done to determine if it would be effective and our state made a blind and imprudent decision to adopt Common Core. This time, as the State Board of Education and the Indiana Department of Education debate the future of Common Core in Indiana, it […]
Is Indiana’s withdrawal from PARCC for real or for show?
Despite Governor Pence and Superintendent Ritz sending letters in June, 2013 requesting to officially exit the federally-funded Common Core testing consortium, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Career Readiness (PARCC), Indiana is still formally listed as a governing member. Considering the fact that the Indiana General Assembly passed legislation requiring Indiana to withdrawal from […]
Written by Hoosiers for Hoosiers- as long as the feds say it’s OK
Governor Pence and Republican legislators have made statements against the Common Core and both groups have signaled their intent to abandon the national standards. Governor Pence has stated that Indiana should have its own high standards, “written by Hoosiers for Hoosiers.” The Indiana Department of Education and State Board […]
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