{"id":5552,"date":"2013-01-25T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/?p=5552"},"modified":"2013-01-25T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T15:57:39","slug":"pat-mcalister-10-supports-common-core-standards-in-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2013\/01\/25\/pat-mcalister-10-supports-common-core-standards-in-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat McAlister &#039;10 supports Common Core standards in education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Pat McAlister \u201910<\/strong> teaches 8<sup>th<\/sup>, 9<sup>th<\/sup>, and 10<sup>th<\/sup> grade English at the Indiana Math and Science Academy-North in Indianapolis. \u00a0In a letter on the <em>Conversations<\/em> page in the <em>IndyStar<\/em> today, Pat explains his view, \u201cCommon Core standards equal deeper understanding of literature.\u201d\u00a0 Common Core Standards in Indiana is a state-led process to develop a common core of state standards in English\/language arts and mathematics for grades K-12.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.indystar.com\/letters\/archives\/7285#startcomments\">Click here <\/a>to read Pat\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n<p>Pat was a Political Science major and History and Theater minor at Wabash, and holds a teaching certificate in Chemistry Education from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.\u00a0 While a student at Wabash, he was a Staff Writer for Public Affairs Department and editor-in-chief\u00a0of\u00a0The Bachelor.\u00a0 He taught physics, chemistry, and English in the Teach for America Program for two years in North Carolina and Indianapolis.\u00a0 He has also been a press intern for Senator Evan Bayh and has been active in local political campaigns<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/01\/Pat-mcalister.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5555\" title=\"Pat mcalister\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/alumni\/files\/2013\/01\/Pat-mcalister.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"428\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/Pat-mcalister.jpg 428w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2013\/01\/Pat-mcalister-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em>Photo:\u00a0\u00a0Pat\u00a0McAlister \u201910, talking with Wabash President Pat White at the 2009 Peck Awards Banquet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat McAlister \u201910 teaches 8th, 9th, and 10th grade English at the Indiana Math and Science Academy-North in Indianapolis. \u00a0In a letter on the Conversations page in the IndyStar today, Pat explains [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}