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"You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text," Kerry told the CBS program "Face the Nation."I read this out loud to Ed over breakfast the other day and we both burst out laughing.
Kerry condemns Russia's 'incredible act of aggression' in Ukraine
BY WILL DUNHAM
WASHINGTON Sun Mar 2, 2014 10:40am EST
We've spent a lot of time stewing over our district's obsession with 21st century skills. Ed's line: "The schools are teaching 21st century skills, so we have to teach the 19th-century ones."
Here's our new fantastically well-compensated superintendent telling the board how warmed-over, pre-crash Tony Wagner is "being used district-wide":
The super is a Common Core enthusiast, too.
Pop quiz: how many times do the words "21st-century skills" appear in Common Core?
11 comments:
I wish I was going to live to see the 22nd century. This one's no good at all.
BL
You are a STITCH!
I'm guffawing.
Inwardly.
"The super is a Common Core enthusiast"
Your super is an enthusiast of low expectations?
I think SteveH just out-stitched me.
"You just don't in the 21st century behave in 19th century fashion by invading another country on completely trumped up pre-text," Kerry told the CBS program "Face the Nation."
So why didn't anyone say that to Bush before we invaded Iraq?
That was Ed's immediate reaction -- we've already invaded 3 countries this century., & none of those countries thought we had a good pretext, either.
Pretext is in the eye of the beholder.
And all the trouble I have to go through (homeschooling, etc) to make sure my kids have 1st century skills: grammar, dialetic, rhetoric.
We have definitely moved on from 1st-century skills...
The answer to "How many times does CC mention 21st-century skills" is: ZERO.
The answer to "How many times does CC mention 21st-century skills" is: ZERO.
Well that's a point in their favor!
I can't believe how fast this century is going by.
I know!
On both counts...
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