AFT and NEA call for delay in Common Core
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, says teachers need at least a year to master the new common core before schools should be held accountable for results.
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Teachers feel unprepared to teach common core curriculum
Education Week reports that even as the Common Core State Standards are being put into practice across most of the country, nearly half of teachers feel unprepared to teach them, especially to disadvantaged students, according to a new survey. The study by the EPE Research Center, an arm of Editorial Projects in Education, the publisher [...]
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