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 […]
Dr. Terrence Moore, author of “The Story-Killers,” to Speak January 6th!
In my opinion, one of the greatest developments in the Common Core battle this past year has been the involvement of Hillsdale College professor Dr. Terrence Moore. Any who have had the pleasure of hearing him speak, or who have read his articles, know why I say this. Dr. Moore is more than a great […]
Common Core Scrooges give Dickens the Boot!
Hillsdale College Professor, Dr. Terrence Moore, has a fantastic new article entitled ” ‘Bah! Humbug!’: A Dickens-less Christmas from the Scrooges at the Common Core.” His article makes clear why it matters what stories children do or do not read in school: In a sane world, any flourishing people has sense enough to teach its […]
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