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Linda Darling-Hammond on the common core standards (Original Post) elleng Jun 2014 OP
She nails what I've been saying for 2 decades now: LWolf Jun 2014 #1
YES as to what you've been saying for 2 decades, elleng Jun 2014 #2
I listened LWolf Jun 2014 #3
I too am sorry. elleng Jun 2014 #4

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
1. She nails what I've been saying for 2 decades now:
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:15 PM
Jun 2014

It's not the standards, it's the misuse of the standards and the tests.

I often look at predictors. Poverty is the greatest predictor of standardized test outcomes, and, for me, appointing Arne Duncan instead of LD-H as Secretary of Education was the clear predictor of what I could expect from the Obama administration.

elleng

(136,108 posts)
2. YES as to what you've been saying for 2 decades,
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:20 PM
Jun 2014

but no way I'd have predicted what this administration would do.

LWolf

(46,179 posts)
3. I listened
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:24 PM
Jun 2014

to what Obama said about education in the '08 primaries; about how "some teachers were unhappy with him," and about how education was one of the things Republicans "got right." I watched his response to my association's endorsement, which I did not support.

I'm very, very sorry to have been correct.

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