Common Core Discussion in the New York Times
Here are two utterly compelling and important opinion pieces from the NY Times (thanks to Seattle Citizen for pointing them out). This is important stuff. The first is by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus called Who's Minding the Schools . Both are professors and are co-writing a book about math. The second opinion piece is by Claire Needell Hollander, a middle school English teacher. If you have ever worked with students in an academic sense - as a parent, a teacher, a tutor - you will recognize the worry in this piece. Reading and writing are such personal skills that trying to mold a child's understanding of how to read and write by providing such a narrow focus gives me a lot of worry. Ms. Hollander's piece is called No Learning Without Feeling . Highlights from Who's Minding the Schools: - Indeed, the first wave of exams was so overwhelming for these young New Yorkers that some parents refused to let their children take the test. These st...