"Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests

[Anonymous]

How do you intend to use the standards?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How do you intend to use the standards?

How did Maryland use the standards that Maryland had before adopting the Common Core standards? How does Virginia use the Standards of Learning?

[Anonymous]

Virginia is reducing the number of SOL tests and they are about to put in a project based assessment as an alternative to the tests.

The pendulum is swinging back. The feds are behind, but they will see the light on this soon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Right - the article is bogus - nobody has even taken the test that she is complaining about yet.

And, there's that flaky "developmentally inappropriate" talking point yet again - with NOTHING to back the assertion up.

And if any teacher is doing "drill and kill" then they are doing it wrong. There's nothing in Common Core that requires "drill and kill" - it's just a minimum set of standards, with very broad latitude in HOW it is taught, and it also does not restrict teachers from doing all the other creative stuff they want to do.

And you know what about how 5 Year olds learn?

[Anonymous]

And, there's that flaky "developmentally inappropriate" talking point yet again - with NOTHING to back the assertion up.

Only years and years of experience with young children.

[Anonymous]

^ Just your opinion, in other words. Meanwhile, hundreds of people who actually have done decades worth of detailed analysis and rigorous studies on early childhood development and academics disagree.

[Anonymous]

^ Just your opinion, in other words. Meanwhile, hundreds of people who actually have done decades worth of detailed analysis and rigorous studies on early childhood development and academics disagree.

Yes. And thousands of people with decades of "hands on in-the-field experience" must know something. If they don't, go ahead and fire those thousands, rehire, and see if you get different outcomes. Because this is "just my opinion" based on decades of experience.

Thanks for your appreciation of my service.

[Anonymous]

Just your opinion, in other words. Meanwhile, hundreds of people who actually have done decades worth of detailed analysis and rigorous studies on early childhood development and academics disagree.

I have yet to see any of the research that says Common Core will improve education. And, those hundreds of people have NOT done detailed analysis. If they have, please link it here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you intend to use the standards?

How did Maryland use the standards that Maryland had before adopting the Common Core standards? How does Virginia use the Standards of Learning?

Md and VA always had high standards and quality curriculi.
Common core began when Obama notices that states like Alabama, Mississippi, and others had lower standards. He then sought to federalize and standardize k-12 standards and released them as Common Core. States can subscribe to them and if they do, they get more testing than before and if doing well (bring up the average test scores), they receive MONEY from the Feds.
Md promptly signed up. Hired pearsons to design curriculum 2.0 according to the common core standards and tests. disaster ensued. In MCPS' case (huge @$$ county), the standards were not necessarily better and an intense focus on the bottom students (tons of social issues) began and good schools (especially ES that used to do tracking) threaded water.

[Anonymous]

Treaded water. More like sank the kids are so bored.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do you intend to use the standards?

How did Maryland use the standards that Maryland had before adopting the Common Core standards? How does Virginia use the Standards of Learning?

Md and VA always had high standards and quality curriculi.
Common core began when Obama notices that states like Alabama, Mississippi, and others had lower standards. He then sought to federalize and standardize k-12 standards and released them as Common Core. States can subscribe to them and if they do, they get more testing than before and if doing well (bring up the average test scores), they receive MONEY from the Feds.
Md promptly signed up. Hired pearsons to design curriculum 2.0 according to the common core standards and tests. disaster ensued. In MCPS' case (huge @$$ county), the standards were not necessarily better and an intense focus on the bottom students (tons of social issues) began and good schools (especially ES that used to do tracking) threaded water.

No. This is flat-out false. The Common Core standards originated from the states and remain a state initiative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Virginia is reducing the number of SOL tests and they are about to put in a project based assessment as an alternative to the tests.

The pendulum is swinging back. The feds are behind, but they will see the light on this soon.

Oh, how I hope so. My DD lives in terror of the SOLs. Learning is no longer fun and interesting at her school. Now it's just a huge packet of facts they must memorize for the SOLs. Crazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Virginia is reducing the number of SOL tests and they are about to put in a project based assessment as an alternative to the tests.

The pendulum is swinging back. The feds are behind, but they will see the light on this soon.

Oh, how I hope so. My DD lives in terror of the SOLs. Learning is no longer fun and interesting at her school. Now it's just a huge packet of facts they must memorize for the SOLs. Crazy.

I don't understand. Virginia has had SOLs since 1995. When did your daughter start school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And, there's that flaky "developmentally inappropriate" talking point yet again - with NOTHING to back the assertion up.

Only years and years of experience with young children.

All that supposed experience and yet you still haven't come up with any meaningful or robust specific, fact-based examples of how Common Core is "developmentally inappropriate..."

You seem to be suffering from some magical thinking that saying it over and over will somehow make it so.

[Anonymous]

All that supposed experience and yet you still haven't come up with any meaningful or robust specific, fact-based examples of how Common Core is "developmentally inappropriate..."

You seem to be suffering from some magical thinking that saying it over and over will somehow make it so.

LOL! You have resorted to personal attacks. Pretty clear you have lost the battle.