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Common Core question soon facing your CA kids
California enthusiastically is embracing the new national Common Core standards for students. Here’s an actual question of the sort that’s going to be facing the students, as posted on a quiz page on the site for the Genesco Commnuity Unit School District
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U.S. ranks third-last in 'numeracy'
America's low-scoring public schools are making it difficult for us to compete in future decades. The latest: “The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on Friday released the initial results of an international survey of adult
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Gov. Brown axes 2013-14 school testing for K-12
Most California’s K-12 public schools will go through the 2013-14 school year without standardized testing after Gov. Jerry Brown just signed Assembly Bill 484 into law. The following school year, 2014-15, less rigorous federal Common Core tests will begin. AB484
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Video: In CA schools, 3 X 4 = 11
Back in the early 1990s, California schools adopted “New New Math” and “Whole Language” to dumb down the kids. Parents revolted. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the state reformed the curriculum and adopted some decent standards. But in
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Video: Common core, coming to a classroom near you…
June 28, 2013 By Brian Calle Alexis Garcia interviews me about the centralizing federal Common Core curriculum.
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CA Parents opposing national Common Core school standards
May 23, 2013 By Warren Duffy Earlier this month, a rally sponsored by Citizens Against Common Core was held in Sacramento on the steps of the Capitol. What is Common Core? In a nutshell, it’s a new, top-down national educational
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