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CAT Tracks for October 9, 2013
OUR DAILY DOSE |
...of Common Core propaganda.
Maybe in "honor" of this week's airing of Education Nation, an NBC affiliate in Chicago provides a history of the Common Core movement.
The article takes note of opposition to the implementation of CCSS, but there is no mistaking its pro-Core position...
From the nbcchicago.com website
New Standards Starting to Take Effect in Schools Across the Country
The paragraph that I found particularly offensive:
"...more engaging,"...
Well, hell!
Even though I never raised my hand, I was pretty "engaged"...
Hell, I "married" education!
What about my "learning style"? What happens to students like me, who want to be taught by somebody who knows whereof they speak, rather than be placed into a social group whose task is to reinvent the wheel...a wheel that took the "nerds" centuries to discover/invent.
Oh, well...
I guess "my type" could always drop out of school!
“Certainly it is new for them (students) to be asked to do these kinds of activities and to be accountable for their own learning, but the students are rising to the occasion; they find this kind of learning much more engaging,” she said. “Instead of being the quiet student in the corner that barely raises their hand, now they’re having to be actively involved in their learning.”
