Yesterday’s New York Times included a letter to the editor from Stephen Krashen, a retired professor from the University of Southern California Rossier School of Education. Professor Krashen wr0te…
“The common core standards movement seems to be common sense: Our schools should have similar standards, what students should know at each grade. The movement, however, is based on the false assumption that our schools are broken, that ineffective teaching is the problem and that rigorous standards and tests are necessary to improve