Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Common Core Via Horticulture

     A friend of mine is a teacher in upstate New York; not that it matters where in New York she is teaching because they are all "racing to the top". Recently my friend posted this article link:

http://dianeravitch.net/2013/08/21/the-upside-down-world-of-common-core/

     While I haven't taught under the Common Core, I am a Massachusetts certified teacher and the Common Core was supposedly modeled after the Third Reich's second coming: the Massachusetts Frameworks. The article noted in the above link comes from an unlikely source but hits the nail on the head with the concept that children, like plants, need diverse environments to grow successfully.


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