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To: epicure who wrote (230550)	8/31/2013 4:58:58 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543044

Thanks. It does interest me. My conversations with school administrators over the last couple of years have been heavily focused on financial matters rather than curricular. So I don't know specifics. In so far as I hear about them in public meetings, the conversational emphasis is on an increasing emphasis on testing (thus the dangers of teaching to the test), much more emphasis on teacher evaluation (absurd numbers of observations expected along with enough paperwork to create a separate job just handling that), and, thankfully, more emphasis on student centered, critical learning. This latter is highly emphasized at the elementary and middle schools which have the better administrators. As for the CORE stuff, it's been fairly noncontroversial with our administrators.