Public Education Going the Way of Netscape Navigator? Common Core, Bill Gates and BATs
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“If you could have three wishes, what would you wish for?”
It was a typical tenth grade essay question. I can still see the red ink circling my first wish on my returned paper; I had written “health.”
“Good health or bad health?”
“Well, duh?” I remember my brilliant 16 year-old sarcasm so clearly. “Who would wish for bad health?”
And as my revenge on this injustice, I used the same technique grading papers for 25 years. I lectured that it was a lesson in being specific. Students need to pay attention to those details where the devil hangs out. The kids loved me … Read More…
