One of Peter Berger's "Poor Elijah" columns showed up today in the Rutland Herald. I confess that I am a huge fan of this common sense educator. He, however, is no fan of No Child Left Behind. Nevertheless, he ridicules a group called Common Core, that has been highly critical of NCLB for supposedly robbing curriculum of content in social studies, science, and the arts.
I might add that the Manhattan Institute has very recently released a study that concludes that high stakes testing in reading and math leads to more proficiency in these other subjects.
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