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How a 574-year-old school is preparing for a world without classrooms
What does a nearly six-century-old private school that charges $54,000 a year in tuition do when confronted with start-ups with bright ideas about how education should work? If you’re Eton College, alma mater to much of the British … Continue reading
Diane Ravitch and the Angry Rebellion against Common Core
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Will the Common Core Backlash Return in 2014?
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A Battle Over School Reform: Michelle Rhee vs. Diane Ravitch
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Joanne Yatvin: The Common Core Standards May Be Harmful to Children
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Common Core’s odd approach to teaching Gettysburg Address
Common Core’s odd approach to teaching Gettysburg Address.
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Anthony Cody: Common Core and RoboGrading
Originally posted on Diane Ravitch's blog:
Anthony Cody wonders in this post whether the Common Core standards are designed to facilitate computer grading of student essays. Cody includes a commentary by Alice Mercer, who describes a writing task on…
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