From Sputnik to the Common Core
This article is an assignment abstract from Dr. Perry Marker’s Sonoma State University MA EDCT 585 Class When the Russians successfully put Sputnik into orbit America flipped out. How could the Russians have technologically jumped so far ahead of us? The answer, it was decided, lay in the education. If we the U.S. was going to be able to compete in the space race we had to a better job of teaching science to American students. The federal government poured in billions of dollars and the K-12 education philosophy knee jerked once again....
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Meaningful K-12 Praxis This article is an assignment abstract from Dr. Maryanne Berry’s SSU MA EDCT 552 Class It’s really amazing to watch the evolution of American K-12 education gaining momentum seemingly on a daily basis. With all the distraction from the roll out of the Common Core, the seemingly endless tug-of-war over federal versus state control and the ideological debate over what knowledge has the most worth, several education institutions have been quietly going about the business of advancing K-12 education into the 21st...
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