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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: Now Common Core is not only "State Led" it's Also "Teacher Designed"

Missouri Education Watchdog: Now Common Core is not only "State Led" it's Also "Teacher Designed":


Now Common Core is not only "State Led" it's Also "Teacher Designed"


Common Core explained:  Common Sense not allowed.


Comments today are reprinted with permission from Barry Garelick.  

Garelick has written extensively about math education in various publications including Education Next, Educational Leadership, and Education News. He is currently doing student teaching at a junior high school in the central coast area of California, and plans to teach math as his second career. He recently retired from the federal government.

He writes:

Stockton CA school district talks about Common Core. 

Here are some gems:

"Most significantly, Stockton Unified Assistant Superintendent Kirk Nicholas said, under the new approach student success will be measured less by their ability to recite facts than by