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…Common Core and the Common Core-aligned PARCC tests would raise the Commonwealth’s standards. “If the goal was to raise standards, it could have been achieved without all the pain and…
http://www.ediswatching.org/2012/02/february-a-month-to-remember-or-forget-in-national-k-12-standards-debate/ Last spring I told you about a growing movement to oppose the Common Core standards and accompanying assessments, as well as the momentum toward a national curriculum. Well, a…
…and true reliance on MCAS and replacing it with unproven national tests and standards called Common Core. I fear… the political implementation of Common Core. If there is no strategy……
…instruction, and tests that ensure students are ready for college or good jobs. They can meet the standards requirement by adopting the Common Core State Standards, which all but four…
…Core, DeVos has undergone a post-nomination conversion. Upon appointment, she announced “I am not a supporter — period.” Let’s hope that is true. The D.C.-driven Common Core standards reflect a…
…do not employ standard test evaluation criteria, organizations, or reviewers. Instead, they employ criteria developed by the Common Core co-copyright holder, organizations paid handsomely in the past by Common Core’s…
…addition, we will secure at least one expert reviewer to conduct a gap analysis of the Common Core and Massachusetts standards. These validations will ensure that by adopting the Common…
…teachers. In addition to Common Core’s academic weaknesses, questions about illegality, and prohibitive costs, the reform records of Common Core’s players certainly do not instill much confidence. Also seen in…
…inferior national ones, the Common Core, which slashed fiction by 60 percent and stagnated NAEP reading scores. Marginalizing great books deprives schoolchildren of legendary stories that can transform young lives….
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/02/national-standards-costly-in-dollars-and-liberty-lost/ Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s comments last week, in which he equated state lawmakers who question the Common Core national standards push with conspiracy theorists, are another indication that the…
