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July 14, 2012

Don't buy new 'content-light' Mass. ICCR standards

http://www.heraldnews.com/newsnow/x736421379/GUEST-OPINION-Dont-buy-new-content-light-Mass-ICCR-standards?zc_p=1 The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education’s 2008 Task Force on  21st Century Skills called for refocusing public school curricula on fuzzy  concepts like “cultural competence” and “global awareness.”  But  Massachusetts citizens were less than excited about trading in the...