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Common Core PersistsEducation reform is like an earthworm... Cut everything off the worm except its head and it survives.

8/3/2014

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Here is a scientific article of interest. "Total Recall: Their heads cut off, worms grow back brains—and retain their earlier memories," By Michael Blanding, Tufts Now, September 25, 2013:

Tufts biologist Michael Levin peels open a rectangular Tupperware container to show off his babies: a dozen or so flatworms of the genus Planaria. They don’t look like much. Brown and about an inch long, they appear almost featureless as they swim around in spring water. But inside those little worms, says Levin, are surprisingly advanced brains. “They have most of the same neurotransmitters we do,” he says....And planaria have an ability we humans may never have—they can grow their brains back. “This is the only model species that enables the study of memory and brain regeneration in the same animal,” says Levin, a professor and director of the Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology. His lab has been studying regeneration for years in animals.... [Keep reading HERE]

NOW read "Common Core May Persist, Even in Opposition States," By Andrew Ujifusa, Ed Week, July 30, 2014. Read that title again"Common Core May Persist, Even in Opposition States"and then read the excerpt below: 

The early pattern suggests that the common standards could undergo some relatively minor changes but still persist in states where opposition has led to high-profile bills and big headlines.......so far there is little sign and not a great deal of precedent that the states backing away from the common core, or considering doing so, will ultimately produce anything that is truly different from those standards.

“The common core is not a yes-no,” said Michael McShane, a research fellow at the Washington-based American Enterprise Institute. “There are shades of gray in there.”...

“It’s what I call Repeal Lite. You get to pound your chest and say, ‘I threw out the common core,’” said Bob Wise, the president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington-based group that supports the common core, and a former Democratic governor of West Virginia.... [bold added]


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