A Fordham Institute’s report, Stars by Which to Navigate: Scanning National and International Standards in 2009, has brought The Common Core State Standards Initiative back into the news.
Proposed National Academic Standards Sidestep Debate
By Nick Anderson
The Common Core State Standards Initiative, as it is known, is an attempt to fashion de facto national standards for math [...]
Education Week News, Bethesda, Maryland, 19 December 2006, Unschooling’ Stresses Curiosity More Than Traditional Academics
As yellow school buses rumble through Nicole Puckett’s Spokane, Wash., neighborhood, her eight children are often asleep in bed. When they wake up, instead of heading to school, they go downstairs to begin another day of “unschooling,” an educational approach that [...]
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Education Week’s ‘Unschool’ Article
Education Week has published an article about unschooling, ‘Unschooling’ Stresses Curiosity More Than Traditional Academic by Michelle R. Davis. You may have to have a membership to sign in (it is free) to read the December 20th report, but it is worth taking the time to register.
Ms. Davis first tells us about [...]
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