Articles+about+altering+or+replacing+CC

//Former president of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), resigned to the inevitability of the CC, suggests a few reforms to improve them.// []
 * Joanne Yatvin, "How to Improve Common Core: A Critic's View", Sept 2013.**

http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2013/11/the_door_we_open_when_we_defea.html
 * Anthony Cody, "The Door We Open When We Defeat the Common Core," //Education Week,// Nov. 2013.**

http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2013/11/can-ccss-be-cleansed.html?showComment=1384813539066#c7140812240363527655
 * Peter Greene, "Can CCSS Be Cleansed?" //Curmudgucation// blog, Nov. 2013.**

//In Apr. 2014, Peter Greene followed up this article with a three-part series in which he imagines what might replace Common Core:// http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-would-winning-look-like.html http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-if-there-were-50-standards.html http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2014/04/what-about-palloohkaville.html
 * //Part I: "What Would Winning Look Like?"//**
 * //Part II: "What if There Were 50 Standards?"//**
 * //Part III: "What about Palloohkaville?"//**

http://dianeravitch.net/2014/07/24/marion-brady-we-need-the-right-kind-of-standards-not-ccss/
 * Marion Brady, "We Need the Right Kind of Standards, Not CCSS," //Diane Ravitch's blog//, Jul. 2014.**

//Subtitle: "Free play shapes a child's brain—and bestows a lifetime of benefits"// http://hms.harvard.edu/news/harvard-medicine/harvard-medicine/play/flights-fancy
 * Jake Miller, "Flights of Fancy," //Harvard Medicine//, 2014.**

Learning from Finland
media type="youtube" key="x-shockwave" width="560" height="315" //**David Greene, author of Doing the Right Thing," speaks on the differences in approach toward education in the USA compared to Finland, Nov. 2014.**//

//Includes a link to a Powerpoint file created by Pasi Sahlberg showing the differences between US and Finnish education systems.// http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/30/1288384/-A-different-approach-to-education //Direct link to Sahlberg's Powerpoint pdf file:// http://pasisahlberg.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Denver-Talk-2014.pdf
 * Teacher Ken, "A Different Approach to Education," //Daily Kos,// Mar. 2014.**

http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/06/24/ctq_faridi_finland.html
 * Sophia Faridi, "Happy Teaching, Happy Learning: 13 Secrets to Finland's Success," //Education Week//, Jun. 2014.**

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/06/how-finland-keeps-kids-focused/373544/
 * Tim Walker, "How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play," //The Atlantic,// Jun. 2014.**

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/finland-school-system-107137.html
 * Caitlin Emma, "Finns beat U.S. with low-tech take on school," //Politico,// May 2014.**