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Rethinking common core : the missing piece sabotaging its success / John Jensen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jensen, John, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Common Core State Standards (Education).
- Education--Standards--United States.
- Education.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Effective teaching--United States.
- Effective teaching.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (79 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book examines the aim of Common Core and how the structure of U.S. education has limited its potential; why many states, district administrators, teachers, and parents oppose it, and the changes that might help to set it back on track.
- Contents:
- The hole we were in
- How the problem arose
- How common core solved the problem
- The objections to common core
- How standards create a problem
- The clue from your use of paper
- How the response addresses the problem
- Why students retain so little
- How a simple idea can matter
- An effective solution
- How you can apply the solution
- How you can help students assimilate knowledge
- How teachers may handle levels of ability
- What it means to learn a whole subject
- How you can help students be creative
- How this approach remedies the learn and lose system dominating us education
- How you can motivate students to cooperate
- How to include parents
- How students can perform publicly
- How to meet required testing
- How to test exactly what students know
- How testing can energize students
- How quickly you can make these changes
- What we can expect of common core.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4758-2067-4
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