From: bookmarch_at_aol.com
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 12:17:19 -0500 (EST)

Here's a perfect example of what Eileen was talking about in problem solvin g, and Tanya in inquiry:

hot off the NY Times website: "Data Hint at Hypothetical Particle, Key to M ass in the Universe" (I didn't embed the link in case the server wouldn't a llow it, but you can easily find it)

Here is a crucial (possible) discovery in our central (perhaps) understandi ng of all of the mass in the universe. Any middle or high school student -- and surely in a week or so readers of TFK and similar publications going i nto elementary school -- is getting information so at the frontiers of know ledge that even the announcement is hedged in hesitation. From elementary s chool up, we are preparing students to catch ideas in flight, knowledge in formation. K books, like many of the kinds of fiction we offer young reader s, place great emphasis on story -- story engages readers, we often say. L books place great emphasis on thinking -- thinking engages readers, is thei r claim. That is pure Common Core -- and it is a different way of seeing NF , and indeed books for young readers, than many have stressed in the past.

Marc Aronson
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