A Defense of Common Core State Standards
Washington Post (blog)
So often, we educators hear the word "common" and assume this means the same. But having common standards does not mean that we have common curriculum, nor that we should be common teachers. Certainly there are advantages to consistency in what students are learning, but that need for steadiness does not translate to everyone turning to the same page in the same textbook at roughly the same time.
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