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    Tag Archives: Paul Tough

    Common Core: Teaching to the New Test- Part III

    Posted on June 27, 2013 by Mary Grabar

    Common Core basically is the “student-centered” learning based on the ideas of progressive education theorist John Dewey, and disproven by the numerous studies analyzed by Jeanne Chall.

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