Current high school exit exams test to about the 10th grade. Common Core will be teaching to this test. Several states have found their own standards to be higher than CCSS. Berengaria mentioned Texas...but there are more states than texas that have higher standards compared to CC.
https://tcta.org/node/11906-texas_standards_compared_to_common_core
Have you clicked the links within these blogs to the documents etc?
The second group was the one with the power. They are identified in the next two subsections, “Develop End-of-High-School Expectations” and “Develop K-12 Standards in English Language Arts and Math”:
Achieve, ACT, and College Board.
NGA and CCSSO wanted to keep the membership of this group a secret. Stotsky testifies as much:
After the Common Core Initiative was launched in early 2009, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers never explained to the public what the qualifications were for membership on the standards-writing committees or how it would justify the specific standards they created. Most important, it never explained why Common Core’s high school exit standards were equal to college admission requirements without qualification, even though this country’s wide ranging post-secondary institutions use a variety of criteria for admission.
Eventually responding to the many charges of a lack of transparency, the names of the 24 members of the “Standards Development Work Group” were revealed in a July 1, 2009 news release. The vast majority, it appeared, work for testing companies. Not only did CCSSI give no rationale for the composition of this Work Group, it gave no rationale for the people it put on the two three-member teams in charge of writing the grade-level standards. [Emphasis added.]
As the CCSS MOU notes, this “Standards Development Work Group” is overwhelmingly comprised of Achieve, ACT and College Board members.
But there are others whose affiliations remain unacknowledged in the CCSS MOU– including David Coleman and his national standards writing company, Student Achievement Partners.
David Coleman, “a lead architect” of CCSS. David Coleman, “the architect of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.”
The very public CCSS “ghost writer.”
One article explaining the CCSS is not what it claims,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/todd-farley/points-to-ponder-about-th_b_811769.html
This link provides some text and also links to the Sandra Stotsky (CCSS validation committee member) testimony against CCSS English, Language Arts mediocre standards.
http://parentsacrossamerica.org/sandra-stotsky-on-the-mediocrity-of-the-common-core-ela-standards/
Time to sign on the dotted line. Just two signatures: A state’s governor and education superintendent.
Two officials making a decision with profound consequences for thousands of people.
No vote by parents or teachers. Although many educaters have said they support it, also said they don't understand it. ( Does this sound familiar to any of you?)
Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in a speech that a survey of the members of the country’s second-largest teachers union found that 75 percent supported the Core but “a similarly overwhelming majority said they haven’t had enough time to understand the standards, put them into practice or share strategies with colleagues.” And she called for a moratorium on the high-stakes use of the test scores to evaluate teachers.
The states must apply at least 85% of the Common Core criteria for curriculium to their own criteria in order to get the massive funding.
(I've not yet found a link to teaching standards to the 10th grade specifically. I've asked my sister to send me one)
Parents have deep concerns about the Common Core standards and their associated assessments, signed onto by 43 states and the District of Columbia. They have been adopted and developed in a rushed manner, because of pressure from the Gates Foundation and the US Department of Education, which threatened to withhold “Race to the Top” grants from any state which did not promise to adopt them.
These standards and their assessments are likely to cost states and districts tens of billions of dollars to implement. There are also huge questions about whether these new tests will be valid and reliable; see Julie Woestehoff’s posting on this. In addition, while they are supposed to test “high order thinking,” they will be administered and scored by computers!
Here is a critique of the standards themselves, from Sandra Stotsky, a respected expert who helped develop the Massachusetts standards, widely regarded as the best in the nation. This is her testimony in support of a Texas bill that would retain their own state standards, and reject the Common Core. Stotsky points out how the Common Core were developed by a taskforce, the majority of whose members work for testing companies, and how the tests themselves are being crafted “behind closed doors.”
- See more at: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/sandra-stotsky-on-the-mediocrity-of-the-common-core-ela-standards/#sthash.bcCl2PBa.dpuf
Parents have deep concerns about the Common Core standards and their associated assessments, signed onto by 43 states and the District of Columbia. They have been adopted and developed in a rushed manner, because of pressure from the Gates Foundation and the US Department of Education, which threatened to withhold “Race to the Top” grants from any state which did not promise to adopt them.
These standards and their assessments are likely to cost states and districts tens of billions of dollars to implement. There are also huge questions about whether these new tests will be valid and reliable; see Julie Woestehoff’s posting on this. In addition, while they are supposed to test “high order thinking,” they will be administered and scored by computers!
Here is a critique of the standards themselves, from Sandra Stotsky, a respected expert who helped develop the Massachusetts standards, widely regarded as the best in the nation. This is her testimony in support of a Texas bill that would retain their own state standards, and reject the Common Core. Stotsky points out how the Common Core were developed by a taskforce, the majority of whose members work for testing companies, and how the tests themselves are being crafted “behind closed doors.”
- See more at: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/sandra-stotsky-on-the-mediocrity-of-the-common-core-ela-standards/#sthash.bcCl2PBa.dpuf Here is a critique of the standards themselves, from Sandra Stotsky, a respected expert who helped develop the Massachusetts standards, widely regarded as the best in the nation. This is her testimony in support of a Texas bill that would retain their own state standards, and reject the Common Core. Stotsky points out how the Common Core were developed by a taskforce, the majority of whose members work for testing companies, and how the tests themselves are being crafted “behind closed doors.” - See more at: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/sandra-stotsky-on-the-mediocrity-of-the-common-core-ela-standards/#sthash.bcCl2PBa.dpuf Here is a critique of the standards themselves, from Sandra Stotsky, a respected expert who helped develop the Massachusetts standards, widely regarded as the best in the nation. This is her testimony in support of a Texas bill that would retain their own state standards, and reject the Common Core. Stotsky points out how the Common Core were developed by a taskforce, the majority of whose members work for testing companies, and how the tests themselves are being crafted “behind closed doors.” - See more at: http://parentsacrossamerica.org/sandra-stotsky-on-the-mediocrity-of-the-common-core-ela-standards/#sthash.bcCl2PBa.dpuf