Indypendent Comprehensive Coverage of the Common Core/Opt-Out Movement
Common Core resistance reflects an awareness of the metastasis of standards-based reforms into broader swaths of the American school system. “The changes in public education beginning to touch suburban communities, white or black” says Royal, “have touched us already in urban communities.” Opt-out parents like Brooklyn New School parent Elsass, who is white, acknowledges this dynamic. “We’re somew
4-13-14 Ed Notes Online
Ed Notes Online: LA Teacher Gains Public Support for Standing Up to Student DisruptorGroundswell of support for teacher who wrestled disruptive student to the floor shows the public is fed up with the disciplinary problems and bureaucracies that impede education....When the cellphone video made the evening news, the student's family was offered support by the district's superintendent — who public