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re: Jindal wants Louisiana out of Common Core
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:00 pm to League Champs
Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:00 pm to League Champs
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3) Half of reading requirements are now to be filled with real world examples, or non fiction and informational. Which means we are replacing literature in our schools with lessons on how to read a utility bill, or credit card statement, or a car manual, or product assembly instructions
bullshite, you may be supplementing practical comprehension with those things you are mentioning, but classical literature is not being removed from the classrooms.
How many of those who failed on the old model of education had any fricking clue what Shakespeare was talking about to begin with?
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Posted on 6/18/14 at 4:08 pm to CollegeFBRules
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bullshite, you may be supplementing practical comprehension with those things you are mentioning, but classical literature is not being removed from the classrooms.
Like I said, you really don't know what you are defending
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The new standards, which took effect this school year, call for students in lower grades to read 50 percent fiction and 50 percent nonfiction. Those nonfiction texts, supporters argue, will be more appealing to boys who have read mostly fiction in their elementary classrooms.
By the time students hit their senior year in high school, the standards call for about 70 percent of their reading to be nonfiction.
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