This is the tweet that has haunted me since the holiday
break began:
Why Teachers Don't Like the Common Core
http://t.co/U4IavVPQHt
—
Diane Ravitch (@DianeRavitch) December
21, 2013
Follow the link, and you come across this quote from
Ravitch’s blog, an extended quotation from the Journal News, which serves the Lower Hudson Valley in New York.
Ravitch sets it up: “They (article authors Melissa Heckler
and Nettie Webb) insist that what matters most in education is the interaction
between teachers and students, not a scripted curriculum or higher standards.