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To: epicure who wrote (245985)	3/1/2014 1:05:52 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542139

"The best changes you could make would be in the parents- making them attentive, supportive of literacy, and creative thinkers- because a lot of our kids our lost by the time they are born (crippled by their parents drug and alcohol addictions, or ruined long before they start school by hours and hours of TV baby sitting and poor nutrition)." This is where I see our problems with "education" as well. Schools haven't changed much, but the society outside the schools have changed a great deal. I grew up with a stay at home mom. She was there to help me when I got home from school. That isn't happening today, due to declining incomes for working people.

To: epicure who wrote (245985)	3/2/2014 9:42:43 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 542139

I think you are right, but there is big political resistance to common core standards being adopted in NC. This is because both the initial common core testing results caused a lot of kids to get low marks (lots of complaints of the test were too hard) (and teachers were unfamiliar with the tests), and because of budget impacts of having to pay more for the CC tests. NC is now "studying" this issue of CC testing and and looking into developing its own tests for what is "right" for us. Some of this spills over into the "Federal Interference" into local standards argument. So it is going to be long slow process in this state. Yet, testing aside, this state has districts that are open to using technology to improve learning so there is some hope there that new tech educational methodologies can work thier magic here.