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Kindergarten Common Core stop the madness
If a 90 minute uninterrupted reading block wasn’t bad enough for a 5 or 6 year old child, try the new Common Core standards. They are developmentally inappropriate and will create a classroom of suffering children and teachers, if teachers stick around. A Washington Post article, by Valerie Strauss critiques the standards and explains why […]
Photos: SB 193 Rally
Approximately 500 parents and educators attended a rally held last week (1/16) at the state capitol to support SB 193 which would remove Indiana from the Common Core State Standards.
Senator Scott Schneider’s Nuvo article on Common Core
http://www.nuvo.net/PerspectivesinEducation/archives/2013/01/17/perspectives-in-education-scott-schneider#.UPw1hKUYHe4 Perspectives in Education: Scott Schneider Posted by NUVO Editors on Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:00 PM Confronting the Common Core Standards By Indiana State Sen. Scott Schneider The Common Core Standards (CCS) were developed by the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Chief Council of State School Officers (CCSSO) and written by a Washington, DC non-profit called Achieve. The […]
Indiana ELA Standards “Clearly Superior”
Read Heather Crossin’s January 16th, Indianapolis Star letter to the editor, entitled Corporate interests behind Common Core. She sets the record straight about the finding of the Fordham Institute report, “The State of State Standards – and the Common Core in 2010,” which categorized Indiana’s English Language Arts Standards as “clearly superior” to those of […]
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