Teachers Leading the Way
By Andrew Amore, Associate Director of Campaigns for Education, Center for American Progress
Preparing our students for life in the 21st century requires a rethinking of teacher roles within schools and districts. And as teachers and advocates have said for some time, the Common Core has the best opportunity to successfully prepare our students when teachers have a meaningful voice in its implementation. Understanding this potential, more than two-thirds of districts are now utilizing teachers to solve the critical problem of finding quality curriculum aligned to the Common Core, according to a recent report by the Center on Education Policy.
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By Karen Nussle, Executive Director of the Collaborative for Student Success
As election results piled in last week, it was evident early that Tuesday was going to be a good night for Republicans. Perhaps instinctively, commentators readied their pens to describe the lashing Common Core Standards had surely suffered. After all, over the past 18 months vocal critics had assured us this election cycle was a referendum on, and a likely death knell for, the high education standards.
Except that it wasn’t.
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