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Brianna Crowley

Is Common Core the Enemy of Autonomy? - Teaching for Triumph: Reflections of a 21st-Century ELL Teacher - Education Week Teacher - 35 views

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shared by Brianna Crowley on 13 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Brianna Crowley on 13 Jan 14
     
    An elementary teacher in a 99% school elaborates on how the CCSS can improve the current system that we have.
Steve Ransom

Newsroom | Alliance for Childhood - 1 views

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shared by Steve Ransom on 28 May 09 - Cached
  • In many kindergarten classrooms there is no playtime at all. Teachers say the curriculum does not incorporate play, there isn’t time for it, and many school administrators do not value it.
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 28 May 09
       
      Then you can't really blame teachers here. Policy/curriculum has to change.
  • “We have had a politically and commercially driven effort to make kindergarten a one-size-smaller first grade. Why in the world are we trying to teach the elementary curriculum at the early childhood level?”
  • Finnish children similarly have a lengthy and playful childhood, not beginning formal schooling until age 7. Yet Finland consistently gets the highest scores on international exams.
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  • Crisis in the Kindergarten describes the current state of public kindergartens in the U.S. as “a national disgrace.”
  • Steve Ransom on 28 May 09
     
    New studies show play losing out to formal lessons and tests, even though multiple benefits of imaginative play are well documented
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