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The Curriculum Conundrum

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Every time an outlandish, over-the-top homework assignment or controversial textbook is reported on it’s automatically assumed to be the direct result of Common Core by many of its opponents.  While Common Core has numerous and well-documented problems and shortcomings, we can’t truthfully blame everything on it – as tempting as that may be… Leslie Beck of […]

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Lies, Damned Lies and the Common Core

Filed in Uncategorized by on June 12, 2013 0 Comments
Lies, Damned Lies and the Common Core

This Comes from R.O.P.E.  It sounded so familiar I thought I would share with everyone.  We’re not alone in Idaho. http://restoreoklahomapubliceducation.blogspot.com/2013/06/lies-damned-lies-and-common-core.html   Hopefully, as a writer who frequently enjoyed ‘inheriting’ ideas from others, Mr. Twain won’t despise me too deeply for my turn of phrase.  I even hope to think he’d agree!  I can’t imagine […]

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