Tag: teachers against Common Core
Common Core’s Awful, Rotten, No-Good Year
Change is hard. We all get comfortable and don’t like it when our status quo is challenged, but give something long enough and we get used to it. Maybe even grow to like it. With Common Core quite the opposite is true, the more you learn the less you like. Earlier this summer Rasmussen […]
What is Common Core 101 part 4
IS COMMON CORE RESPECTED BY HIGHER ED? 132 professors of Catholic Universities recently wrote a letter denouncing Common Core on both academic and moral grounds. Also: Dr. Anthony Esolen of Providence College in Rhode Island has written: “What appalls me most about the standards … is the cavalier contempt for great works of human art and thought, in […]
Us vs.Them Rethinking “Them”
Yesterday I wrote a post about how battle lines are being drawn differently. Today I am posting a link to an article by gentleman who I would not normally agree with, but he has some good ideas. And while I don’t agree with all of them 100%, I don’t agree with anyone all of the […]
