Creativity Is Almost Dead … and Non-Educators Want To Kill It
Double Reading Rainbow
After posting a few crosswalk documents between the New York State math standards and The Common Core Standards on this site and at my place of employ, I’ve been very involved in understanding how these mandated national standards will transform our way of teaching students, and how we need to get parents and students involved in the education ecology. By all accounts, the new standards are pretty good; light on how much we need to cover, deeper in the things we should cover.
Yet, this transition phase, like most other reforms, can often feel like it’s being done unto teachers and not with