On Common Core...

"Common Core strikes me as, at long last, the re-emergence of common sense in our classrooms," notes Robert Pondiscio, vice-president of the Core Knowledge Foundation and a former fifth-grade teacher, in the Fordham Institute's "Common Core Watch" blog. "We’re no longer ignoring what we know about reading comprehension and language development. And we’re making elementary-school teachers the most important people in America... the big ideas enshrined within CCSS were long overdue to be restored, renewed, or otherwise placed at the heart of ELA instruction from the first days of class in every American school." Read more...