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What is “teaching to the test” and is it bad?

By: Christian Guerrero

Years ago in a professional setting, a respected educator asked a group of teachers a simple question: “What do you teach?”  The group of skeptical middle school educators answered with different responses that varied from subjects to grades.  At the end of the process, the facilitator reminded us that none of the things we mentioned, […]

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Uncommon Feelings about the Common Core

By: Christian Guerrero

www.inwoodacademy.org Common (adjective) – occurring, found, or done often; prevalent. Core (noun) – the central or most important part of something. It is hard to think of two more basic words than common and core. As a young student in Ms. Lozinski’s English class I would have been asked to be more creative and imaginative […]

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3 Ways To Help Your Child Avoid The "Summer Slump"

By: Christian Guerrero

For me, the summer of 1994 had to be one of the most exciting summers on record. Between Jim Carrey’s The Mask coming to theaters, the Rangers winning the Stanley Cup, and Weezer releasing their first album, I had an awful lot of things to distract me. But the fact is, all those distractions took […]

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