Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, indicated that they will not pull away from trying to impact state education policy.
Mourning the Loss of Poetry
On Sunday The Washington Post had a great story that highlighted some of the criticism of the Common Core ELA standards. One teacher pointed out what she had to remove from her curriculum as a result. Jamie Highfill is mourning the six weeks’ worth of poetry she removed from her eighth-grade English class at Woodland […]