Did you catch the guest viewpoint in the Press & Sun-Bulletin yesterday (Feb. 26)? Gretchen Dandrea Blynt of Andes, a teacher at a school in the Catskills, wrote about New York state’s recently adopted Common Core Learning Standards vis-a-vis an arts curriculum and the value of independent, critical thinking. Here’s a link: http://tinyurl.com/74exzxn.