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I teach a Traditional Grammar course (elementary education and English education) sophomore level course. It's intended as a prep course for PRAXIS I and also as a prep for their future education courses.

I've been working with Common Core for several years, and I want my students to know about it! In one week, they evaluate the National Common Core website. In the next week, they each get a state; the assignment is to evaluate that state's website information to support the common core (obviously, only the member states are assigned). The students then report back on a discussion board. In the third week, the students look at a DIFFERENT state, then measure the effectiveness of the first student's review - basically, is the information accurate. Discrepancies must be resolved between the students and the discussion board "fixed."

The clear "winner" with good websites are below: Rhode Island West Virginia Michigan Mississippi Alabama Kansas Massachusetts N. Dakota Was...See More


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