Children's Authors Beg Obama for Relief from Testing Insanity
Wish in one hand, and spit in the other; see which one fill up first. From MSNBC, of all places:Famed author and poet Maya Angelou and 120 other children’s book authors are challenging President Obama’s national education policy over what they call an “overuse and abuse” of standardized testing. They say the focus on testing hurts children’s imaginations and has a negative impact on children’s lo
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Schools Matter: Something's Rotten at the Center of the Common CoreStan Karp, at Rehinking Schools, knows how to get to the heart of the matter and has a way with words. Thanks for providing us teachers with some good reading on a snow day."Something's Rotten at the Center of the Common Core"Something's Rotten at the Center of the Common Core January 22, 2014 | This is a revised versi