By Erin Glanville
About this blog: While state and federal politics dominate the headlines, local issues have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. This blog will attempt to shine a light on topics of public interest and facilitate greater participation in the ...
(More)About this blog: While state and federal politics dominate the headlines, local issues have an enormous impact on our everyday lives. This blog will attempt to shine a light on topics of public interest and facilitate greater participation in the civic process in our community. Born and raised in California and a graduate of UC Davis (go Aggies!), I had an opportunity to live and work - inside the beltway - of Washington, D.C. while completing my graduate work at Georgetown University. Upon completion, I returned home and embarked upon a career in high tech with companies including Tandem Computers and Cisco Systems, eventually settling in Menlo Park with my husband. After the birth of our middle child, I became an at-home mom but continued to stay involved with community issues close to my heart. That involvement has included work for Site Creations, a non-profit dedicated to public art, guest lecturing at Foothill and De Anza colleges, board membership for SOLO Aquatics, and serving as Nativity School's auction chair, parent-teacher group secretary and co-president. But these days, I'm mostly just mom to three great, and very busy, kids.
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With the school year off to a start, the realities of Common Core are now emerging in the classroom. My oldest child, a middle school student, brought home her new Common Core language arts vocabulary workbook, and I was surprised to see the ease with which she ran through what had always been a challenging assignment. I reviewed her workbook and felt that the words seem much easier (e.g. "mutual" from the new text vs. "capricious" from her old text).
The situation got me wondering: what are other parents experiencing with the implementation of Common Core? Please share your experiences, good, bad or indifferent, and include the grade levels of your children if possible. Are there discernable differences? If so, what are they?
