re: #206 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

I didn’t get the entire story Mattand linked to, because the video is being blocked by the Great Firewall of China, but the issue is supposedly whether the college kids can solve the subtraction problem using the CC algorithm. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to prove, really, other than provide fodder for know-nothing sites like Independent Journalism Review aka Fox New Lite.

As far as I can tell, the Common Core Standards are a big improvement over NCLB, which was mostly about testing and funding. The CCS encourage deeper learning and interaction among students and teachers.

That’s a good thing. Really it’s better for everyone involved when students have positive interaction with their teachers.