Strauss: Common Core’s odd approach to teaching Gettysburg Address

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November 19th, 2013 by schoolbound

Imagine learning about the Gettysburg Address without a mention of the Civil War, the Battle of Gettysburg, or why President Abraham Lincoln had traveled to Pennsylvania to make the speech. That’s the way a Common Core State Standards “exemplar for instruction” — from a company founded by three main Core Read more

Source: washingtonpost.com