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What IS the Common Core?
What is the Common Core? It certainly is not just this. Here is an admission I am loath to make: I do not know what the Common Core State Standards are. I have read them. Not only have I read the parts...
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How the Common Core Closes Minds
History does not repeat itself. Those who forget the mistakes of the past might not be doomed to repeat them. Each historical era is its own world. It is fertile soil out of which the next historical...
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Exclusive! My Interview with Arne Duncan
Secretary of Education Arne Duncan sits down with the Assailed Teacher to answer the questions we’ve all wanted to ask him. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan is facing some heat for his “white...
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What’s in a Test?
Supporters of the Common Core have to reckon with one immutable truth: testing does not measure everything. Whether or not it measures anything important at all is up for debate. The fact that it...
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