Author Archive: Erin Tuttle
Liberté, égalité, fraternité?
Supporters of Common Core (CC) claim it will make the education system of the U.S. more equitable by requiring all students be taught the same national standards and thus have equal benchmarks for educational goals. This systemization of the U.S. educational establishment will allow high standards to be implemented and thus improve the economic competitiveness […]
Common Core advocacy research is hit and miss
Disclaimer; I am not a statistician. But, it doesn’t take a whole lot of IQ points to see the advocacy research used to support Common Core(CC) is all over the place and has little consistency. Take William Schmidt’s research on the alignment of CC math to those of the states and high performing countries. It […]
Is fact checking part of journalism?
Anyone out there remember our rally on April 24th when hundreds of people hand delivered a letter to Governor Pence pleading with him to stop Common Core? It was a letter signed by close to a thousand people within 4 days and supported by 58 Indiana organizations and several national groups. You don’t recall it? […]
Don’t diss the standard algorithm
W. Stephen Wilson, professor of mathematics and education at Johns Hopkins University and Alice Crary, associate professor of philosophy at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College published a piece defending traditional mathematics. It puts the argument into laymen terms and is a must read for all concerned with Common Core math […]
NCEA does not endorse the Common Core?
Charlotte Hays of the Catholic National Register writes about the implications and problems Catholic schools are facing with the adoption of the Common Core in her article, Common Core Education Standards Generate Catholic Concerns.Having children in Catholic school, I have witnessed their full support of the standards and the zeal with which national Catholic educators […]
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