Tag Archives: common core

Why Johnny Can’t Add

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My father was an aerospace engineer. When I was growing up, I never really knew what he did, since his job involved mostly top-secret projects. In fact, I never once visited his office, which required a high-security clearance even to enter. But over the years, I did manage to piece together a few facts about what he did. One day, when […]

Letter from the Editor: Summer 2014

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For some thirty years after the United States won World War II, there were islands dotting the Pacific where stray Japanese soldiers still hid in the jungles, unaware that the war was over. Even though the end of a war is a big event, it takes a while for some people to get the memo. American education has experienced […]

Common Core and the Classical Core Curriculum

Core Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards have become a heated topic of discussion among professional educators as well as homeschoolers. Memoria Press does not align its program with these standards for several reasons. The first is that they are not as academically rigorous as the implicit standards behind Memoria Press’ Classical Core Curriculum. […]

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