Everything you need to know about Common Core -- Ravitch

From Jerry Ervin, Zone 1, ISTA-R
Subject: Re: Everything you need to know about Common Core -- Ravitch

This came to me by one of our members. This is lengthy but is a good look at the problems created by No Child Left Behind and compounded by Race to the Top and our own Indiana Polititions. Click on the link below and please read.

I'd like to share this with as many as I can. Diane Ravitch has written a couple of books including The Death and Life of the Great American School System [and Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools]. What staggers my mind is that there are 5 million people who know more about what happens in a classroom than the vast majority of those making decisions about Public Education. I believe it will take decades for our Schools to recover and the decision makers will be rich and gone.

Jerry Ervin Zone 1 ISTA-R

Everything you need to know about Common Core -- Ravitch
By: Valerie Strauss

Diane Ravitch, the education historian who has become the leader of the movement against corporate-influenced school reform, gave this speech to the Modern Language Association on Jan. 11 about the past, present and future of the Common Core State Standards.

Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education

The Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Education (NEIFPE) has announced some events of interest to everyone concerned about Public Education.

Diane Ravitch author of The Life and Death of the Great American School System and a strong advocate for public schools will be speaking at the Auer Auditorium on the IPFW campus at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13. Dr. Ravitch will be part of the Omnibus Lecture Series. Tickets, though free, are needed for this event. Call the IPFW box office at 481-6555 for further information.

As a prelude to Dr. Ravitch's appearance, NEIFPE has arranged for the showing of two films at the downtown Cinema Center.

Waiting for Superman will be shown on Sunday, February 26 at 4:15 p.m and on Monday, February 27 at 4:00 p.m.

As a response to "Superman," Cinema Center is showing The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman on Sunday, March 4 at 4:00 p.m. and on Monday, March 5 at 4:00p.m.

Northeast Indiana Friends of Public Educations will lead a discussion of the two films following the two Sunday showings. There will be no charge for these showings, but donations will be accepted to help the producers of The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman defray their production and distribution costs.

A flyer with information about NEIFPE will be distributed at the Cinema Center events. You can download a copy HERE.

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