How Common Core is wrecking kindergartner -- with SPECIFIC examples

[Anonymous]

READ. Critical thinking involves getting the facts, not running hog-wild pumped full of unsubstantiated bullshit from right wing conspiracy theorists.

Critical thinking also involves examining those "facts" and reading the supporting documentation. Please support the "facts" stated on that website.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

READ. Critical thinking involves getting the facts, not running hog-wild pumped full of unsubstantiated bullshit from right wing conspiracy theorists.

Critical thinking also involves examining those "facts" and reading the supporting documentation. Please support the "facts" stated on that website.

Alternatively, please provide evidence that the statements on the website are false.

[Anonymous]

Seems to me there are states that haven't implemented CC that also have Kers learning to read in K. Look at the VA School forums here, and you'll see mention of it.

As someone stated before, MCPS also had kids learning to read in K prior to 2.0. Doesn't seem like this is anything new.

[Anonymous]

Alternatively, please provide evidence that the statements on the website are false.

I already have. Please tell me which teachers were on the development committees for the standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Alternatively, please provide evidence that the statements on the website are false.

I already have. Please tell me which teachers were on the development committees for the standards.

But the website doesn't say that teachers were on the development committees for the standards. Here is what the website says:

The Common Core State Standards drafting process relied on teachers and standards experts from across the country. Teachers were involved in the development process in four ways:
1)They served on the Work Groups and Feedback Groups for the ELA and math standards.
2)The National Education Association (NEA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), among other organizations were instrumental in bringing together teachers to provide specific, constructive feedback on the standards
3)Teachers were members of teams states convened to provide regular feedback on drafts of the standards.
4)Teachers provided input on the Common Core State Standards during the two public comment periods.

Which of these statements is false?

[Anonymous]

drafting process relied on teachers

Really? When did the teachers help draft the standards?

[Anonymous]

They served on the Work Groups

ONE on the math and ONE on the English.

And, the one who served on the math group has been quite critical.

[Anonymous]

3)Teachers were members of teams states convened to provide regular feedback on drafts of the standards.

Where is the data from this feedback? Which teachers?

[Anonymous]

4)Teachers provided input on the Common Core State Standards during the two public comment periods.

And, the comments were not stellar. How many teachers?

[Anonymous]

I want to say, also, that I find all of these arguments about process incredibly beside the point. All of this happened in 2009 and 2010. It's now 2015. Deal with what we have now. If you don't like the Common Core standards, then stop wasting your own time and energy arguing about how they were developed. Instead, propose some alternatives. Should all of the states just go back to the status quo ante? Should the states develop different standards jointly? Should the states develop different standards separately? Should the states abandon standards altogether and instead [whatever]?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

They served on the Work Groups

ONE on the math and ONE on the English.

And, the one who served on the math group has been quite critical.

That doesn't make the statement false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

4)Teachers provided input on the Common Core State Standards during the two public comment periods.

And, the comments were not stellar. How many teachers?

That also doesn't make the statement false.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

3)Teachers were members of teams states convened to provide regular feedback on drafts of the standards.

Where is the data from this feedback? Which teachers?

And that doesn't make the statement false.

[Anonymous]

And that doesn't make the statement false.

Then, why don't they show it to us?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

And that doesn't make the statement false.

Then, why don't they show it to us?

Perhaps because they have limited resources and more immediate issues to deal with than five-year-old arguments about process.