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Hoosiers Against Common Core calls for returning to “uncommonly high,” pre-Common Core Standards
Hoosiers Against Common Core co-founders, Erin Tuttle and Heather Crossin, sent the following correspondence to members of the Indiana Education Roundtable, which obviously includes Governor Mike Pence and Superintendent Glenda Ritz. Dear Members of the Indiana Education Roundtable, On behalf of many parents fighting for the adoption of quality standards for Indiana, we respectfully submit this […]
New Indiana standards cut American literature and The Declaration of Independence
All sets of standards, even the Common Core, have some good standards- some more than others. If Indiana wanted to retain some of the Common Core, there were standards that would have contributed to forming a document that was “uncommonly” high. However, a review of the final draft of the English standards clearly shows they […]
New Indiana standards will be voted on without an analysis of final draft
The Associated Press reported that Indiana will not do an analysis on the final draft of standards released April 15th before being voted on by the Indiana Education Roundtable on April 21st: The governor’s special assistant for education innovation and reform, Claire Fiddian-Green, said the more than 6,000 hours spent revising the standards and including […]
New draft standards- a few of my favorites
All sets of standards have a few good ones in them and I love how supporters of Common Core or, whatever we are going to call the new standards, always point to a few of them and pretend the whole document is just like that. I’m going to post few that I found in the new draft […]
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