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…the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction; Common Core’s Validation: A Weak Foundation for a Crooked House; Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School…
…The Book of Virtues and the Core Knowledge curriculum—and with Common Core’s ELA standards. Hirsch has consistently advocated for a content-oriented curriculum, while Common Core’s standards are chiefly content-free (and…
…from a purely administrative standpoint, allowing educators to complete in seconds what used to consume laborious hours. Download Report: Cogs in the Machine: Big Data, Common Core, and National Testing…
…have a discipline-based interest in the topic (e.g., American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Modern Language Association). Download Report: The Dying of the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction…
Testimony to the California Academic Content Standards Commission provided in July 2010. Download Report: Review of Common Core Math Standards: Testimony to the California Academic Content Standards Commission…
…knowledge of history, in their view, was a sure path to “a tragedy or a farce.” Download Report: Imperiling the Republic: The Fate of U.S. History Instruction under Common Core…
…textbooks and instructional materials. In addition, states and local communities are expected to face substantial new expenditures for technology infrastructure and support. Download Report: One-Page Primer on Common Core: Cost…
…the media. Two of Common Core’s own mathematics standards writers have publicly stated how weak Common Core’s college readiness mathematics standards are. At a public meeting of the Massachusetts Board…
…changed and the federal money was instead used to persuade states to adopt administration-backed nationalized K-12 English and math standards and tests. Download Report: One-Page Primer on Common Core: Quality…
…of instruction and instructional materials, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum. Download Report: One-Page Primer on Common Core: Legality…
…former counsels general to the USDOE. Download Report: Summary: The Road to a National Curriculum: The Legal Aspects of the Common Core Standards, Race to the Top, and Conditional Waivers…
…Common Core. In a post last week (“The war against the Common Core”), he morphs into good ol’ Sergeant Finn, crabbing at any observers, “Nothing to see here, folks. Move…
What is Common Core? How did it start–and who drove it? Are the standards high? How will it change our understanding of authentic college-level work? Are Common Core proponents well-intentioned?…
…whether the knowledge-free curricula of the graduate schools of education, or the Core experiences at Harvard College, in any way guided the authors of our new Common Core in their…
…Core” (emphasis added). Examples are included of how this impressive degree of alignment was achieved, including state standards that were modified to fit Common Core and Common Core standards adopted…
…National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards “Very few of the states that adopted Common Core vetted the costs and benefits beforehand,” said Theodor Rebarber,…
…the video clips with Jason Zimba’s comments on college readiness in Common Core’s mathematics standards at a March 2010 meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. https://pioneerinstitute.org/news/video-common-core-lead-writer-jason-zimba/…
…these topics rather than to teach them to use core math skills. The standards in place in Massachusetts before the commonwealth adopted Common Core in 2010 were internationally benchmarked. Students…
…handful of states have not adopted the Common Core. Checker admits that the likelihood (not fear) that Uncle Sam won’t be able to keep his hands off the Common Core—which…
…reduction of literary-historical content in the standards is a necessary consequence of Common Core’s emphasis on informational reading. The nine literature standards and ten informational standards in Common Core’s grade-level…
…tied. The authors call on the Commonwealth to phase out Common Core and PARCC, and to base a revised MCAS on Massachusetts’ pre-Common Core curriculum frameworks, updated by pertinent new…
…EdWeek’s “Leadership Forum” sent an email invitation entitled “Save the Date: Road Maps to Common Core Success in March 2013.” I invite you to attend Road Maps to Common Core…
…the Common Core standards.No, his team won’t mention the Common Core, but everybody knows that’s what he’s talking about when he calls for “college and career-ready standards.” Fearful of…
…than Common Core, to just have this sort of mediocre lowest common denominator to share that it can be much richer and more challenging than that. That’s something I think…
…Education Week’s blog published a review of criticism for Obama’s Common Core initiative. The shocking thing is how many liberals are now acknowledging Common Core comes at a high cost…
…One-Page Primer on Common Core: Legality One-Page Primer on Common Core: Quality Claims and Facts about Common Core Common Core Facts Testimony to the Utah 2012 Education Interim Committee Review…
…Common Core, then perhaps you prefer to read myths. Here’s one—a recent Common Core “validation study” from the EPIC center, which was funded by the hyper-pro-Common Core Bill Gates Foundation…
…to adopt the Common Core standards, Rebarber noted. However, a report he authored earlier this year conservatively estimated the overall national cost for implementing Common Core at a hefty $16…
http://www.texasinsider.org/why-states-should-jump-from-the-national-standards-bandwagon/ Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON, DC – When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal…
