From Sputnik to the Common Core

Posted by on Nov 24, 2014 in Common Core State Standards, K-12 Curriculum | 0 comments

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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