[CharterSchools] Feature on Morris Jeff Charter: Making Common Core Work

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http://newamericamedia.org/2014/06/an-international-model-for-the-new-us-education-standards.php


NEW ORLEANS – When Morris Jeff Community School, a charter elementary, reopened its doors here in 2010, five years after being destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, journalists were eager to interview Principal Patricia Perkins about the school’s plan to adopt an international education association’s more rigorous academic standards. 

“It’s a curriculum framework that...focuses on foreign languages, critical thinking skills, arts and physical education,” Perkins told one reporter at the time. “It’s a very holistic way of educating children.”

Today, those same words could just as easily be used to describe the new education standards, known as Common Core, that schools in more than 40 states across the country, including Morris Jeff, will be adopting this fall.


Read the full article at the above link...


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