by nonjwspouse 107 Replies latest social current
Especially if you are a teacher, how did you learn about it to begin with? Was there a Common Core rep doing a slick presentation?
How do those of you with kids on school feel about, among others, things such as the deemphasis on the great works of literature ?
http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/common-core-great-literature-article-1.1394249
Even some Caholic Diocese which partially accepted the Common Core are now beng pressured by parents and teachers to get out of the program.
Are you in New York?
I love the ideals, but I'm not naive enough to think it will solve all the woes of public education in the US.
The underlying concepts and goals of teaching young people to THINK CRITICALLY and to be COLLEGE and/or CAREER READY when the leave high school are laudable. (Not to mention the WTBTS would hate them both).
It will hard to implement and no doubt many publishing companies will make a killing as all the textbooks across the country suddenly become "obsolete" because they do not "align with the new standards."
You mean like this type of test: http://roundtheinkwell.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/the-math-test.pdf
What the fuck is a "related subtraction sentence". I understand what they're trying to do but it abstracts a lot of things away into words that have no meaning in the real world.
The mere idea that asking questionsin a public way about the Common Core can get a person arrested
was enough to raise big red flags for me.
reading critical reviews got me wondering whois behind all this push for common core
http://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/notes/why-common-core-bad-america
These are beaurocrats, not educators who know how to educate our children.
http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/13412-whos-behind-the-common-core-curriculum
One very disturbing part is the data mining on these kids. Check out the extensive listing of information that will follow them indefinatly.
and then there is the matter of David Coleman,( a man who applied for a high school teaching job and was turned down. He is not a teacher but he is a beaurocrat with nice degrees. ) .... Common Core Writer now rewriting the SAT. More forcing of "teaching to the test", but not geared for 4 year degree college standards, since the Common Core is geared for community college 2 year degrees or trades.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/david-coleman-common-core-sat_n_3818107.html
The deeper you research into the people behind common core the more stinky it gets.
Ugh it's about the Gates founfation.... or in other words $$$ the Catholic Schools adpoted common core. I am so upset.
The mere idea that asking questionsin a public way about the Common Core can get a person arrested
The guy was arrested for pushing a police officer after completely ignoring the rules of the meeting, not for asking a question.
Hey, I'm all for Civil Disobedience. But if you're going to do it, then don't whine when you have to pay the consequences.
That being said, Mr. Small's "question" wasn't even a question. He made a stupid statement, and I quote: " "You are not preparing [high school students] for Harvard. "
The stated goal of Common Core standards is to make high school graduates "college and career ready." It does not promise anyone Harvard," nor should it.
To put it mildly, Harvard is an unrealistic goal for the vast majority of high school graduates:
http://livingisnotboring.blogspot.com/2013/10/education-is-not-same-anymore.html?m=1
I teach middle school, these are my thoughts on the common core
No idea what it means, please explain the phrase.
Can someone please explain what the term Common Core Education means.
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