Why are people so upset about Common Core?

[Anonymous]

I love how obtuse you are. Perhaps you should go through Common Core yourself and learn some critical thinking skills....oh, wait. You DO think just like the shallow Common Core "close reading" garbage they advocate. Which is why you can't connect all the uber-obvious dots.

Maybe you need to learn the meaning of "implied" and "inferred".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:from Common Core website:

Will common assessments be developed?

Two state-led consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced), are currently working to develop assessments that aim to provide meaningful feedback to ensure that students are progressing toward attaining the necessary skills to succeed in college, career, and life. These assessments are expected to be available in the 2014-2015 school year. Most states have chosen to participate in one of the two consortia. For more information, visit the website of your state’s assessment consortium. Two additional consortia, working through the National Center and State Collaborative Partnership and the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternative Assessment System Consortium, are developing a new generation of assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities

I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

[Anonymous]

I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

It's tied to the federal money. And, I'm pretty sure they know that. You cannot separate the money from the standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
from Common Core website:

Will common assessments be developed?

Two state-led consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced), are currently working to develop assessments that aim to provide meaningful feedback to ensure that students are progressing toward attaining the necessary skills to succeed in college, career, and life. These assessments are expected to be available in the 2014-2015 school year. Most states have chosen to participate in one of the two consortia. For more information, visit the website of your state’s assessment consortium. Two additional consortia, working through the National Center and State Collaborative Partnership and the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternative Assessment System Consortium, are developing a new generation of assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities

I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

You do realize that the tests are part of the problem? When you have a standard, you generally want to measure it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
from Common Core website:

Will common assessments be developed?

Two state-led consortia, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (Smarter Balanced), are currently working to develop assessments that aim to provide meaningful feedback to ensure that students are progressing toward attaining the necessary skills to succeed in college, career, and life. These assessments are expected to be available in the 2014-2015 school year. Most states have chosen to participate in one of the two consortia. For more information, visit the website of your state’s assessment consortium. Two additional consortia, working through the National Center and State Collaborative Partnership and the Dynamic Learning Maps Alternative Assessment System Consortium, are developing a new generation of assessments for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities

I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

You do realize that the tests are part of the problem? When you have a standard, you generally want to measure it.

Which problem? There are so many!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

It's tied to the federal money. And, I'm pretty sure they know that. You cannot separate the money from the standards.

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

[Anonymous]

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

You mean because it does not say "Common Core"--yet uses the description of common core standards?

What do you want?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

It's tied to the federal money. And, I'm pretty sure they know that. You cannot separate the money from the standards.

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

When you read between the lines you can pretty much make up anything you want!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.




It's tied to the federal money. And, I'm pretty sure they know that. You cannot separate the money from the standards.

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

When you read between the lines you can pretty much make up anything you want!

Well, go back to your KoolAid. You clearly do not have the critical thinking skills to read between the lines.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.




It's tied to the federal money. And, I'm pretty sure they know that. You cannot separate the money from the standards.

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

When you read between the lines you can pretty much make up anything you want!

Apparently, you do not have that common core skill of knowing that 7+7 is the same as 10 + 4.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

You mean because it does not say "Common Core"--yet uses the description of common core standards?

What do you want?

Please cite the part of the Race to the Top grant application that uses the description of common core standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I don't see anything in there about using test scores to evaluate teacher performance.




It's tied to the federal money. And, I'm pretty sure they know that. You cannot separate the money from the standards.

You mean the Race to the Top grants? Which states can choose to apply for or not to apply for? And which do not require adoption of the Common Core standards?

When you read between the lines you can pretty much make up anything you want!

Well, go back to your KoolAid. You clearly do not have the critical thinking skills to read between the lines.

Lol! And here I thought you've been drinking the Glenn Beck koolaid.
I prefer facts to made up conspiracy theories, YMMV.

[Anonymous]

http://caffeinatedthoughts.com/2014/03/chuck-grassley-leads-effort-defund-common-core-u-s-senate/

Washington, DC) Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) is circulating a “Dear Colleague” letter seeking cosigners for a letter that will be sent to the leaders of the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee – Senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Jerry Moran (R-Kansas) asking that they include language in their next appropriations bill to block the further use of any funding from the U.S. Department of Education to incentivize or otherwise coerce states into adopting and retaining the Common Core State Standards.

[Anonymous]

http://www.msnbc.com/all/you-asked-randi-weingarten-answered-common-core-standardized-testing

Randi Weingarten: Common Core should be a guide, not a straitjacket

"Standards are only meaningful once you see them in real practice. That’s why so many of us question why the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers—the very people who oversaw the writing of the standards—copyrighted them, rather than encouraging change and adjustment as educators saw the standards work in practice. The K-2 standards seem developmentally inappropriate for our youngest children, and educators and parents report that they are having a disproportionately negative impact on our younger students. Without doubt, this is a place where we need course correction and where the voices of early childhood educators must be heard.

I’ve heard from pre-K and kindergarten teachers alike that the Common Core is inappropriately pushing written literacy standards when the focus should be on the development of oral literacy skills. And that’s actually delaying the development of literacy."

[Anonymous]

http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/education_futures/2014/05/do_teachers_really_hate_common_core.html?cmp=ENL-EU-NEWS2

Do Teachers Really Hate Common Core?

So, the article is a CC fanfest....but then the teacher comments weight in and tell the article writer he is full of shit!


Here's one I like.

"I will be straight up and say I loathe Common Core. I teach high school math and Common Core is horrible. We didn't need to revamp how we teach math. I keep hearing that we need to have more word problems and that that is what CC will do. Will it didn't work. I have never had such a miserable group of Freshman. Miserable, nervous, anxious and terrified about failing. Kids come in to retest, retest, and retest some more. They are learning how to retest, but not learning the actual math. When CC was implemented, we lost one-quarter of our basic Algebra. One-quarter of a basic beginning language was removed. We were given one day to "review" basic beginning operations that usually take a full 2 weeks as most students coming in to high school are clueless about beginning basics. This is not teaching. Everything is data driven, and not student centered. Teachers are leaving the profession in droves."