(Hour 3b, c) Senior Fellow Sid Glassner displayed his education swag with us again. He quizzed us with a couple of Common Core questions.
We failed the quiz.
Glassner has a one question quiz for the proponents of Common Core. How are they going to evaluate if the standards are better?
Failing a different test was the Manchester School Board at the public hearings for the Manchester Academic Standards. Glassner described the “professional discourtesy and incredible disservice to taxpayers” that he witnessed there.
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We discussed the influence of corporate America on today’s public schools. Education centers or Corporate Training Centers?
“We are short-changing our children,” said Glassner, “internships are fine, but the focus should be on learning, not training.”
(Hour 3c) 07-31-2014 Hour 3c