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Common Core: How are books judged? [from the Washington Post's "Answer Sheet" blog]
The Core Standards' emphasis on "readability" formulas is "clear, and disturbing." Here's why.
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Common Core Standards Make a Mockery of Novels' Complexity [New Republic]
What are "lexiles" and what does their adoption by the Core Standards mean for readers and teachers of readers? Read this in combination with the newly released Fordham report.
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A Quick Guide to Resisting from Within for Educators [from Peg with a Pen blog]
"I began to make a list some time ago to document the many ways I work to resist the corporate snakes who slither around my feet and try to strangle the love of learning out of my school....The following is simply a quick guide to resisting from within." This is an outline for a course I want to teach for teachers about personal and professional identity development.
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