tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283584335635780428.post9080137202713343248..comments2023-04-27T04:35:04.968-04:00Comments on Teaching Transforms: Muddling through the ideologiesEmily Van Arkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10593903103254340877noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7283584335635780428.post-6690170557463195352010-08-04T20:53:54.221-04:002010-08-04T20:53:54.221-04:00Emily, you may want to check out the Art of Teachi...Emily, you may want to check out the Art of Teaching Science blog (I have a blog post about it). On this blog, the author has a series of posts about the Common Core Standards and what organizations and financiers are behind the push for adopting these standards, as well as writing the standardized tests to go with them.<br /><br />I find myself more and more concerned about this push for national standards. I'm concerned that we will end up with an overly centralized school curriculum and administration that is detached from the needs and wants of local communities. I'm becoming more and more a believer that economic sustainability in the future will require more of a shift back to local economies that are more self-reliant. One of the big motivations behind this push for national standards is stated to be the need for our students to compete in a global economy. But is a globalized economy the most sustainable model for 20, 30, 50 years from now?Bill Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04039344532378682160noreply@blogger.com