All a Twitter on Wednesday Morning

With all the budget challenges these days and all the great advances in education, I was happy to see so much action on twitter this morning about leaps in thinking and critical analysis in 140 words. So for the great leaps in thinking about education I offer this titdbit:

“Students are asked to do progressively more challenging things, and although that may sound obvious, it’s a real breakthrough,” said Michael Cohen, a former Clinton Administration Education Department official who is president of Achieve.

That was taken from a NY Times article about the newly released Common Core State Standards. Thank goodness somebody is getting paid to think so deeply. It took them a rather long time to figure that all fifth graders should be able to do math. And then some more time to decide that all fifth graders should be able to do division. And more time to decide that all children in all states should be able to do long division. I guess now all that s left to decide is how to implement all these breakthroughs and I am sure that will take no time at all and cost even less.

Back to Twitter. The one size fits all works perfect in my sock drawer. Ah, well, except for the socks that have no match. Why do I keep those? One size fits all education. Now there is a top seller! The article in the times was a tweet by the author of our book Will Richardson. One of the responses he got was from the good Alan Levine. Just a video, it is below. For more expensive banter, see EdWeek article.

I love the smell of Twitter in the morning.