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CAT Tracks for June 25, 2015
GRADING THE COMMON CORE |
While reading the article below, my normally musically inclined mind strayed to the movies instead...
...an old favorite (appropriately named) Lost in America...
...specifically the scene in which the lead character David Howard (played by Albert Brooks) exclaims:
Well, folks, after reading this article, you will see the present and the future of education in the United States:
God help us all...
...but especially the teachers whose careers and lives depend upon her assessment of murkier than ever standardized state assessments.
From the New York Times
"I've seen the future! And it's a bald-headed man from New York!"
And it's a woman "who immigrated from France with her American husband five years ago and previously managed a wedding business."
