Monday Musings: If I Were on a Repeal Common Core Committee

If you’ve been following the news in NC, you are aware we have a “Review Committee” currently studying the Common Core Standards. IF you’ve not been following the NC events, you should..opportunities to hold those in charge accountable for ridding us of the CCSS are abundant. Quick review: First up, the way in which NC […]

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Monday Musings: Education Fables, Common Core Style

Since it’s Monday, I thought I would share with you some musings about the educational fables Common Core Standards have created for us.  (I’ll continue to refer to the CCS throughout the rest of the post by giving it a book title of  ‘Common Fables of Education’). Unlike Aesop’s book, ‘Common Fables of Education’ ( in […]

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Monday Musings: What’s in a Name?

Recently, the Washington Post published an article about the U.S. States renaming ‘Common Core’ for their own purposes. (Here’s the link to the article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/common-core-20-common-core-by-another-name/2014/09/09/9d2ed458-3857-11e4-bdfb-de4104544a37_story.html) Now, while the article appears to give ‘just the facts’, my intent is to take a more ‘tongue in cheek’ approach to the states choices of ‘renaming’ the CCSS. First […]

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