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9 Skills the Common Core Doesn’t List but that Employers Want Anyways

March 15, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 5 Comments

The Common Core State Standards for literacy were intentionally designed with a “less is more” ethos. Despite that, there’s still too many of them for average teachers like me to implement effectively. That’s why I cut them, choosing to achieve excellence with a few skills and strategies rather than achieve mediocrity with them all. My list is what you […]

Don’t You Dare Forget These Truths about Teaching

March 10, 2014 By Dave Stuart Jr. 2 Comments

[dropcap]I[/dropcap]n my last post (you know, the one from two months ago), I shared some similarities between the Common Core’s list of college- and career-readiness skills in literacy with the skills listed in Bill Coplin’s book 10 Things Employers Want You to Learn in College. In my next post, I’m going to give that post’s teeter-totter […]

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