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zazen

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2. Common Core policy and implementation are misguided, wasteful, counterproductive

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Fri Oct 18, 2013, 06:15 AM

Oct 2013

at least at my daughter's middle school. I'm working on an op-ed on 10 issues with it alone. I wish I could home-school my daughter. It's the worst corporate ed reform I've seen in my lifetime.

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Is Education ‘Reform’ Wrecking the Common Core? [View all] eridani Oct 2013 OP

k&r for exposure. n/t Laelth Oct 2013 #1

Common Core policy and implementation are misguided, wasteful, counterproductive zazen Oct 2013 #2

Please post it here when you finish. I'd like to see it, and I'm sure others will also n/t eridani Oct 2013 #3

Please post op ed here or link Thanks in advance lunasun Oct 2013 #7

That first paragraph is about the best description I have seen about the idiocy of ed. reform. Squinch Oct 2013 #4

The common core standards themselves? LWolf Oct 2013 #5

Both deserve to die a quick death. n/t duffyduff Oct 2013 #6

"By ALL indicators"? Smarmie Doofus Oct 2013 #8

What do bubble tests, pencils, or testing in general have to do with Common Core? Sgent Nov 2013 #9

Testing companies getting rich off Common Core like they did off NCLB madfloridian Nov 2013 #10