The Bensenville teachers who led several of the workshops, aside from morning keynotes featuring University of Virginia education professor Carol Ann Tomlinson, were enthusiastic, if a bit nervous at welcoming groups of fifteen to twenty outside teachers to observe their summer-school lessons. ... At any rate, close reading is now all the rage not just in Bensenville and school districts it influences, but across the nation, thanks to Common Core. But Pondiscio, a Common Core supporter and former employee of E.D. Hirsch’s foundation, nevertheless was aghast to see a model Common Core les...