Brainstorming Common Core Challenging the Way We Think about Education [Hardcover]

Moving us away from a fail/pass, test-based system, Lee dares us to imagine schools that incorporate hands-on, proficiency-based curriculum that will propel students into being lifelong learners who are prepared to meet future challenges.Eldon Cap Lee?has a unique way of poking holes in common treatments of schooling and reform that makes everyone within a moderate distance of his sphere take pause.? With this book, Cap cautions us to take stock of Common Core's impact....not simply its intent. He challenges us to reconcile our philosophy with practice so that the phenomenon of high standards is a matter of application and not just one of rhetoric.As I read this book I thought so much of the Mc Donough ?#15 Creative Arts School that my son attended in New Orleans in the 1990s. ?This school and its concept no longer exist, however, if New Orleans wants real reform they would revisit that school as well as utilize the concepts in this book instead of forcing test driven reform. ?Its a great book! ??Brainstorming Common Core: Challenging the Way We Think about Education includes ideas developed in the trenches by talking to and servicing parents, educators, and students for over fifty years.In Eldon Cap Lee's new book, standards become guidelines for success rather than deadlines for failure as it is recognized that all children are unique, with different brains and different dreams. This leads to the reality that children are children, not branded on their foreheads for their differences but accepted within the wide range of skills and abilities present in all of us. Brainstorming Common Core: Challenging the Way We Think about Education includes ideas developed in the trenches by talking to and servicing parents, educators, and students for over fifty years. This book draws away from an artificial testing based education to one that teaches the whole child. As we brainstorm Common Core we see the necessity to empower children to chase their dreams and follow thlÖ