Teacher is Madder Than Hell About Common Core Standards
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| Time for teachers to form a rebellion against Common Core? |
A teacher wants to start a nationwide rebellion against Common Core Standards. From the San Leandro, CA Patch Teacher Is Madder Than Hell And Ain't Gonna Test Kids Anymore:
(Jerry Heverly is an English teacher at San Leandro High School. He has written before about how theCommon Core State Standards, a new federal mandate, will affect students and teachers.)
I’m starting a new organization at San Leandro High School.
It’s called the Common Core Resistance Army.
It would be sort of like those 60’s radical groups that were run by ex-con’s.
I’ll need a pretty young woman to be my deputy, of course. We’ll preach mass resistance to standardized tests.
Why does he dislike CCSS?
In researching this column I learned a few things about the Common Core that I didn’t know
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