It's exactly what critics of the Common Core school curriculum warned about: Partisan political statements masquerading as English lessons finding their way into elementary school classrooms. Teaching ...

Some of the biggest critics of new lesson plans aligned with the national Common Core standards are the people charged with teaching them. A growing number of teachers say the national standards, ...

The goals for Salata’s class were made clear to the students on two printouts he taped to his blackboard. A major part of the Common Core, he said, is stating the goals of a lesson to students at the ...

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D'Lee Pollock-Moore is an English teacher and department chair at Warren County High School in Warrenton, Georgia. She blogs at Musings from Master P, where this critique of the Common Core English ...