Collaboration Lite Puts Student Achievement on a Starvation Diet

Common Core Standards architect David Coleman ……• “Teachers must train students to be workers in theGlobal Economy. It is rare in a working environmentthat someone says, “Johnson, I need a market analysisby Friday but before that I need a compelling accountof your childhood.”• Translation to the classroom: No more primary gradeessays about lost teeth or middle school essays aboutprepubescent angst. Instead, students must providecritical analysis of the “Allegory of the Cave” fromPlato’s Republic, listed as an “exemplary informationaltext” in the Common Core State Standards