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Math Misadventures With the Common Core

The Common Core makes for strange bedfellows.  I found myself resonating with Mark Rice who wrote about the Common Core at The

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March 6, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core Math Standards, Mark Rice, The Huffington Post

Sandra Stotsky Offers ELA Standards for States to Adopt

Dr. Sandra Stotsky, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, offered to any state or school district a set of

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February 14, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core State Standards, ELA Standards, Sandra Stotsky

Where’s Math Content and Skills?

One of our partners emailed this following poster to us that was hung up in a Middle School classroom where he substitute

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February 12, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core Math Standards, Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice1 Comment on Where’s Math Content and Skills?

Algebraic Thinking for Those Who Don’t Know Algebra?

Barry Garelick’s article yesterday in Education News tackled the issue of teaching kids the “habits of the mind” that make up algebraic

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January 29, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content algebraic thinking, Barry Garelick, Common Core Math Standards, habits of the mind

Common Core Science Standards Up for Public Comment

CNN reported last month that the Common Core Science Standards or “Next Generation Science Standards” were going to be coming out. If

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January 18, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content CNN, Common Core Science Standards, Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards

Who Is Writing The Common Core Social Studies Standards?

They’re coming.  Right now we have math and ELA standards, but we’re told that they will expand.  J.R. Wilson asks in a

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January 16, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core Social Studies Standards, Council of Chief State School Officers, J.R. Wilson

The Common Core and Gingerbread Curriculum

Students in New York are treated to the New York Common Core Gingerbread Curriculum. It may be delicious, but how much are kids learning?

January 11, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core Math Standards, New York Common Core, William E. DeLuca Elementary School2 Comments on The Common Core and Gingerbread Curriculum

Kids Experience Testing Success When They Grasp Basic Math

Brain science now tells us that kids who grasp basic math experience testing success. Does the Common Core Math Standards help or hurt?

January 10, 2013 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Barry Garelick, Brain and Mind Institute, Common Core Math Standards, Journal of Neuroscience, PSAT, SAT7 Comments on Kids Experience Testing Success When They Grasp Basic Math

Stotsky: Common Core Writing Standards Not Linked to Appropriate Reading Standards

Dr. Sandra Stotsky, professor of education reform at the University of Arkansas, wrote a piece for the Indiana Policy Review that critiques

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December 28, 2012 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core ELA Standards, Indiana Policy Review, Sandra Stotsky

No Room for Fiction

I had to share this cartoon from Me & Folly Cartoons about the Common Core ELA standards treatment of fiction: Used with

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December 21, 2012 Shane Vander Hart
CCSS Content Common Core ELA Standards, Me & Folly

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