It’s been five years since controversy peaked over the Common Core State Standards and their use in Catholic schools. What have we learned? By 2013 the Common Core was being adopted rapidly by ...
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a right-tilted think tank and longtime staunch supporter of the Common Core, just released a survey of ELA teachers and some attendant conclusions about how the Common ...
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Editor’s note: Proponents of the Common Core State Standards – the most ambitious education reform in decades – say the standards will help close the nation’s achievement gap. Just how is that ...
Part 1 in a four-part series on reading in the Common Core era. The Common Core State Standards are changing what many kids read in school. They're standards, sure — not curriculum. Teachers and ...
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Critics of the Common Core reading and math standards adopted by forty-odd states since 2010 have taken to calling them “Obamacore,” in a play on health care reform. The “Obamacore” moniker reflects ...
D'Lee Pollock-Moore is an English teacher and department chair at Warren County High School in Warrenton, Georgia. She blogs at Musings from Master P, where this critique of the Common Core English ...