Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade CCSS vocabulary. – SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE

I have been giving the New York State Education Department’s new Common Core curriculum modules a study over the last few weeks. I see these modules as an insulting scripted curriculum that favors test preparation skills over learning.  I teach middle school social studies so new reforms such as the Common Core have not had much of a direct impact on my classroom yet, but as a parent the Common Core and its related high-stakes testing machine has my full attention.
July 29, 2013 By Chris Cerrone

Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade CCSS vocabulary. – SCHOOLS MATTER @ THE CHALK FACE