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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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
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
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
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
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
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?
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?
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
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