Jester

Common Core State Standards

Well, the teaching to the test quality still remains, but schools have been doing that for decades. I've taken the TAKS test, as mentioned above, as well as the Louisiana and California equivalents (LEAP and CATS respectively).

The main goal of these new policies are to make sure that kids in Silicon Valley, California or the suburbs of Dallas, Texas (two of the better public school systems in the country) are on the same level as kids from inner-city New York or downtown Washington D.C. (some of the worse schools you can put a kid in).

Common Core State Standards

State education chiefs and governors in 48 states came together to develop the Common Core, a set of clear college- and career-ready standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts/literacy and mathematics. Today, 43 states have voluntarily adopted and are working to implement the standards, which are designed to ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared to take credit bearing introductory courses in two- or four-year college programs or enter the workforce.

-from the website's main FAQs page.

So for those of you who aren't aware, this has been the hot button issue in education over the last few years. It directly affects all facets of learning in the United States. I'd like to give a little more information on it, but this is an extremely polarizing topic, so I don't want to color any views right away.

I was just curious to see if anyone here knows a lot about it, and if so, what are some of your opinions?

Game of Thrones - A Song of Ice and Fire

Was writing up a sheet for House Swann. Would you mind working with me on that point babbysama?

Russia in Crimea

Today in Crimea:

• U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry was the star of the show, but got very little diplomacy done.



• Both U.S. and EU committed to sending aid to Crimea in amounts of 1b and 15b respectively.



• There were doubts about the EU's promised aid.



• Putin seemed to backpedal somewhat, but it's nothing to hold your breath about.



• And the Ukraine beat the U.S. in soccer.

This concludes our evening report.

Dark Souls II

Maybe the backstabbing area will be hard to find at the beginning, but once you get a feel for where it's at, then it shouldn't be too difficult.

A new Era

You had a hierarchy in this place? Seems counter-intuitive.

Introducing myself

Publishers won't like that it has already been made public.

Werewolf Disco High School Romance

jerry puts his swag on and rolls his lupine ass up on in to the building

whats happenin' Dante, my man?

Werewolf Disco High School Romance

I'm Jerry