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What Can California Learn from Louis CK about Common Core?
Protests against Common Core standards for California public schools are building. It's not the goals of critical thinking and analytical skills, but the tests.
By Warren Olney • • 26m ListenStandards for public schools called Common Core are being adopted in California — slowly. Not all grades are taking new tests, and no scores will be made public until all students take them next year. But protest, like that in New York and other states, is beginning to build. It’s not the goals of critical thinking and analytical skills, but those tests. We get a progress report. Also, should Los Angeles Metro take a class in the physics of wind power?
Later, on To the Point, revelations of NSA spying threw a scare into Internet users. Now the White House is proposing to regulate use of the same technology by retailers, employment agencies and financial companies. We hear from privacy advocates and from Silicon Valley, which warns against limiting the fastest growing sector of the economy.
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2 storiesCommon Core: For Better or Worse
As the father of children in New York public schools, comedian Louis CK has become a poster-parent for protest against Common Core . That's the new federally approved program of educational standards designed to produce the critical thinking and analytical skills required for success in the global economy.
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LA Metro is spending billions to upgrade its rail transit system. On projects like extending the Purple Line to the Westside, it wants to harness green energy. But a project to capture wind on a Red Line train platform has experts in physics scratching their heads.
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