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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic Petition in the forum
Prospective Forum: TM Manuscript Culture and Textual Studies on MLA Commons 11 years, 8 months agoI support this new forum. Margie Ferguson
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Margaret W. Ferguson started the topic Projects for the Council's K-16 Education Committee? in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoWhat would members of this Discussion Group like the Council’s K-16 Education Committee to do? As Chair of that Committee, I have an idea for a project that would involve establishing partnerships among college and secondary school teachers to discuss implementing the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts; how could college t…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic Sample Common Core tests in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 9 months agoIn response to Rosemary Feal’s post, I’d like to call your attention to Elizabeth Phillips’ op ed. in today’s New York Times, “We Need to Talk About the Test”: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/10/opinion/the-problem-with-the-common-core.html?_r=0
Again, as at previous stages of the CCSSI process, the great potential of the educational reforms is…[Read more]
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Margaret W. Ferguson replied to the topic narrative complexity in the forum
Common Core Standards Initiative Discussion Group on MLA Commons 11 years, 10 months agoThank you, David, for the link to Elfrieda H. Hiebert’s research report and for the Text Project Web page link too.
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Margaret W. Ferguson posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months ago
Hi Katina and everyone! There is a second session at this year’s Chicago convention that might interest you:
97. Children’s Literature and the Common Core
Thursday, 9 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Belmont, Chicago Marriott
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Margaret W. Ferguson posted a new activity comment on MLA Commons 12 years, 3 months ago
Hi Katina! I’m delighted that you’ve joined this group. You raise an interesting question to which I don’t have anything like a full answer: how the Standards are being portrayed in the media? In my town, Davis CA, the local paper is, I’d say, “cautiously optimistic” about the Standards and even the teachers, who are having to implement the…[Read more]
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Thanks so much, Margie! I hope to be able to attend the session, and I’ll look forward to following the conversation here as well.
Hi Katina and everyone! There is a second session at this year’s Chicago convention that might interest you:
97. Children’s Literature and the Common Core
Thursday, 9 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Belmont, Chicago Marriott