Common Core, in 9-Year-Old Eyes

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1. The degree to which the institution works contrary to their own best research findings never ceases

...never ceases to amaze me.

I remember a course in grad school, taught by "specialists" in the field of special accommodations, the focus of which was how to accommodate "exceptional children" (includes gifted and LD), the in their practice broke nearly every rule they were teaching:

Teacher-centered, powerpoint-based, or endless droning, non-participatory.

Ridiculous. We aren't moving forward.