Personalized Learning and Common Core: Mortal Enemies?
Title: Personalized
Learning and Common Core: Mortal Enemies?
Source:
www.usnews.com
URL: http://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-01-10/personalized-learning-and-common-core-mortal-enemies
Key
Points: The article discusses the difficult relationship between
common core standards and independent learning. Due to the
traditional sense of creating a curriculum that is based on holding
students to the same standards, the personalized learning movement
is being met with speed bumps, despite it's popularity. Though
passionate proponents can argue either side, this article examines
the possibility of finding common ground between the two academic
systems.
Relevance: Learning
more about how you as an individual stand on the concept of
different learning styles can better help us decide how we want to
go about teaching the next generation.