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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are touring schools and the principal at one told us that the education field has moved away from standards and to common core. He said their private school offers a more traditional approach to education.  First of all, I thought standards based education = common core? Isn’t the idea that there is a national set of standards, albeit pretty low ones, that make up the common core in public schools? Second, what does traditional mean, I assume it means textbooks, spelling lists, and learning from a teacher rather than inquiry based learning technology and apps. This is one of the first schools we have looked at so far so we are new to all this. [/quote]

Green flag. He is saying they are not following the broader educational trend towards a watered down curriculum and instead are sticking with curriculum and pedagogy that work.

(Btw, VA does not follow Common Core precisely because CC is so watered down. Instead, VA has its own VA Standards of Learning.)

That said, PP is correct that one ought to be observant on tours, quietly taking pictures of the textbooks so one can investigate their suitability later on, looking for electronics use, and so on.

One school we toured sounded good during the tour. Afterwards from a quick photo taken during the tour, we saw their reading was Fountas & Pinnell, so we looked that up. After we understood that F&P was bad news for reading, we dropped that school from our short list. One always needs to perform due diligence. [/quote]

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