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Cristal Ball

 A look ahead at some of the trendiest trends of 2014…

Why it seems like only yesterday that we were All Hailing the EduPreneur, raising our wassail boxes to his (and her) unique ability to *do well* by *doing good.* So what does 2014 have in store for us? Will it be as disruptive, innovative and excellent as its predecessor, or will it be even more disruptive, innovative and excellent? What new jargon will climb to the very top of our *must spout* list? And how much leftover wassail will it take before we all forget that 2014 was supposed to be the year ofuniversal proficiency? Here’s a peek… The Common Core debate gets auld
Reader: while you’ve been playing Candy Crush and binge watching Vanderpump Rules, I’ve been getting my history on. If the increasingly heated debate over our Common Core is starting to feel a little auld, that’s because we’ve been having more or less this same fight for the last 100 years. The efficiency experts of the 1920′s, with their dream of transforming teaching into a