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To: JohnM who wrote (283614)

11/22/2015 10:22:32 PM

From: koan

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I have never exactly figured out a position on that one. I can see the goal people are trying to achieve, I think? The common core is kind of what Aristotle and the church gave us for 2000 years. And it set us back. People knew back during the time of Aristotle, the earth revolved around the sun, but it doesn't fit in his paradigm.

When I was going to school, and teaching school, I always felt that randomness of teaching methods and curricula was good, in that it made sure dogma didn't prevail. I'm more afraid of dogma, then I am of inferior teachers. I learned a lot, from almost every teacher I had. And almost every teacher I had, I felt was doing a pretty good job and earning their money.

And I had many great teachers.

So how much more are we going to gain over that, to risk misguided dogma from constraining our thinking?

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The Common Core proposals are in increasingly deep trouble. Now Massachusetts, one of the states to originate the program and the tests, is pulling out. Hard to say what happens next. In the portions of New Jersey I know a little bit about, there was little concern about the standards but deep concern about the testing regimen. nytimes.com