Teaching the Common Core: Common Core in the Middle: Making It Work Requires Solving a Riddle

Shanahan couches a serious question within a playful riddle: What essential element is missing from the language of the Common Core State Standards? He offers clues, like “It is a word that appears no place within the Standards” and “If we don’t have plenty of this, we will likely fail with Common Core.” Ultimately, he reveals the answer and gives us one more weapon in our implementation arsenal.