Common Core CPR: What about the Adolescents Who Struggle . . . or Just Don't Care?

ایده آل؟ فارغ التحصیلان دبیرستانی که به تازگی در سراسر کشور تحصیل کرده اند، هر کدام یک نابغه متن پیچیده، یک نویسنده و متفکر تحلیلی غیرقابل مقایسه هستند. با تشکر از Common Core، همه به کالج ها و مشاغل با شکوه

واقعیت؟ 1.3 میلیون دانش آموزی که هر سال از دبیرستان فارغ التحصیل نمی شوند و صدها هزار نفر دیگر که مدت ها پیش یا رها کرده اند یا علاقه خود را از دست داده اند. . .

واقعیت این است که چرا CPR هسته مشترک مورد نیاز است. فوری زیرا اگر ما همچنان اصرار کنیم که همه دانش‌آموزان انتظاراتی را برآورده کنند که فراتر از توانایی‌ها و ذهنیت‌هایشان است، این بچه‌ها سریع‌تر افول خواهند کرد. ما باید به اندازه کافی شجاع باشیم

The ideal? Newly minted high school graduates all across the nation, each one a complex text genius, a writer and analytic thinker beyond compare. All on to glorious colleges and careers, thanks to the Common Core.

The reality? The 1.3 million students who fail to graduate from high school each year and the hundreds of thousands more who either gave up or lost interest long ago . . .

The reality is why Common Core CPR is needed. Urgently. Because if we continue to insist that all students meet expectations that are well beyond their abilities and mindsets, these kids will only decline faster. We must be brave enough—and trained enough—to cast aside what we know harms students and apply with renewed vigor the teaching methods we know work.

Releah Lent and Barry Gilmore rise to the challenge, and there are no two authors better equipped to do so. They embrace what is best about the standards—their emphasis on active, authentic learning—and then explicitly show teachers how to connect these ideal outcomes to practical classroom strategies, detailing the day-to-day teaching that can coax reluctant learners into engagement and achievement. You'll learn how to:

. . . And so much more

 It's not the big sweeping formulas for achievement that will win the day; it's the incremental growth that teachers need to make happen: that one book, that one writing assignment, to help a student turn a corner. "If we can get that one transformational moment to occur, and follow it up by designing more opportunities for success, that's the ideal," say Lent and Gilmore.