Tag Archives: Richard Beach

President’s Message: National Core Standards…..What Happened?

Early in June, the long-awaited national education core standards were released.  A lot of hard work, burning-of-midnight-oil and precious time  have been expended toward  this 21st-century effort to jump-start education in America .   While we applaud the hard work, especially this recognition  in the common core English Language (EL) Standards of critical-thinking skills as they relate to […]

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Petition Regarding National Core Standards

It’s up to us….and NOW. Please, if you are in any way interested in sustained media literacy education in our schools, you’ll take the time to review and comment on this petition, written by our media literacy educator friends, Frank Baker, the Media Literacy Clearinghouse, and Richard Beach of the U. of Minnesota.  Together, they have filled in some […]

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