Why are people so upset about Common Core?

[Anonymous]

That's who "we" is? That's odd, because I think the Common Core standards are a big improvement, and I'm not relying on a publishing company to determine my kids' future.

Where do you think your school will get its materials and tests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That's who "we" is? That's odd, because I think the Common Core standards are a big improvement, and I'm not relying on a publishing company to determine my kids' future.

Where do you think your school will get its materials and tests?

Where did schools used to get their materials and tests?

[Anonymous]

Where did schools used to get their materials and tests?

In the past, teachers made their own tests. There was not this HUGE requirement for standardized tests that there will be with 45 states participating. Just watch. All will fall under the Pearson umbrella. Then, just wait for the cheating.

[Anonymous]

Common Core now bringing Holocaust Denial to your local school, yaaay!

http://ktla.com/2014/05/05/rialto-assignment-asking-to-students-to-question-holocaust-to-be-revised/#axzz30sp8CKDK

The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”
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The English/Language Arts assignment, first reported Sunday by the San Bernardino Sun and provided to KTLA by the newspaper, asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust describing “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
rialto

The 18-page assignment instructions included three sources that students were told to use, including one that stated gassings in concentration camps were a “hoax” and that no evidence has shown Jews died in gas chambers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Where did schools used to get their materials and tests?

In the past, teachers made their own tests. There was not this HUGE requirement for standardized tests that there will be with 45 states participating. Just watch. All will fall under the Pearson umbrella. Then, just wait for the cheating.

All of the tests taken by all of the students in all of the classrooms in all of the 45 states participating in the Common Core standards will, in the future, be written by Pearson? I didn't know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Common Core now bringing Holocaust Denial to your local school, yaaay!

http://ktla.com/2014/05/05/rialto-assignment-asking-to-students-to-question-holocaust-to-be-revised/#axzz30sp8CKDK

The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”
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The English/Language Arts assignment, first reported Sunday by the San Bernardino Sun and provided to KTLA by the newspaper, asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust describing “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
rialto

The 18-page assignment instructions included three sources that students were told to use, including one that stated gassings in concentration camps were a “hoax” and that no evidence has shown Jews died in gas chambers.

Please cite the specific Common Core standard according to which 8th graders are supposed to write an essay about whether or not the Holocaust happened. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

All of the tests taken by all of the students in all of the classrooms in all of the 45 states participating in the Common Core standards will, in the future, be written by Pearson? I didn't know that.

It may not be a fact. However, it is a likelihood. NY, TX, and CA have already contracted with them, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

All of the tests taken by all of the students in all of the classrooms in all of the 45 states participating in the Common Core standards will, in the future, be written by Pearson? I didn't know that.

It may not be a fact. However, it is a likelihood. NY, TX, and CA have already contracted with them, I think.

Contracted with them to do what?

[Anonymous]

Does Pearson write the PARC tests too?

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/05/pearson-of-course-wins-huge-common-core-testing-contract/

Here you go. You think the Obamacare roll out was a mess? Just wait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Common Core now bringing Holocaust Denial to your local school, yaaay!

http://ktla.com/2014/05/05/rialto-assignment-asking-to-students-to-question-holocaust-to-be-revised/#axzz30sp8CKDK

The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”
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The English/Language Arts assignment, first reported Sunday by the San Bernardino Sun and provided to KTLA by the newspaper, asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust describing “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
rialto

The 18-page assignment instructions included three sources that students were told to use, including one that stated gassings in concentration camps were a “hoax” and that no evidence has shown Jews died in gas chambers.

Please cite the specific Common Core standard according to which 8th graders are supposed to write an essay about whether or not the Holocaust happened. Thanks.

Yeah WTF does this have to do with CC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Common Core now bringing Holocaust Denial to your local school, yaaay!

http://ktla.com/2014/05/05/rialto-assignment-asking-to-students-to-question-holocaust-to-be-revised/#axzz30sp8CKDK

The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”
...
The English/Language Arts assignment, first reported Sunday by the San Bernardino Sun and provided to KTLA by the newspaper, asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust describing “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
rialto

The 18-page assignment instructions included three sources that students were told to use, including one that stated gassings in concentration camps were a “hoax” and that no evidence has shown Jews died in gas chambers.

Here's the thing: The common Core state standards for writing require having students read texts, and then write an argumentative essay.

Individual teachers (or groups of teachers, or the school district) need to come up with the curriculum. THey decide which texts the students should read, and assign the topics. Or, school districts can purchase a published curriculum, with all the read ins and assignments in it.

Everyone says that they want teachers to have "creativity" and local control over the curriculum. Well, this is what "creativity" looks like!

Sometimes teachers (or groups of teachers) make questionable choices, such as assigning a debate on whether the Holocaust happened, in 8th grade!

If we don't want to have a national curriculum, with readings chosen for everyone, and the same topics assigned at each grade level, there are going to be questionable activities and assignments. This is what "local control over curriculum" means.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

All of the tests taken by all of the students in all of the classrooms in all of the 45 states participating in the Common Core standards will, in the future, be written by Pearson? I didn't know that.

It may not be a fact. However, it is a likelihood. NY, TX, and CA have already contracted with them, I think.

So it's just "your" prediction then. Ok got it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

That's who "we" is? That's odd, because I think the Common Core standards are a big improvement, and I'm not relying on a publishing company to determine my kids' future.

Where do you think your school will get its materials and tests?

My child's school gets its math curriculum from McGraw Hill. Is that owned by Pearson?

The McGraw-Hill math curriculum for Common Core standards does not seem to have the problems that people are noting in other textbooks. If your school district is using a confusing math textbook you might want to put pressure on them to switch to Mc Graw Hill.

[Anonymous]

I guess this school district was confused about Common Core as well...

www.sbsun.com/social-affairs/20140504/exclusive-rialto-unified-defends-writing-assignment-on-confirming-or-denying-holocaust