"Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Note that Wisconsin is using its own test.

No. Wisconsin is using the Smarter Balance (SBAC) test. They are part of that consortium. They just renamed it the "Badger Test" for their own purposes. See the article below.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/19/common-core-tests-to-cost-millions-more-than-expected-in-wisconsin/

Breitbart.com? Really?

[Anonymous]

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Similar to states that have “rebranded” the Common Core standards and tests, Wisconsin renamed the Smarter Balanced test “The Badger Exam.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Note that Wisconsin is using its own test.


No. Wisconsin is using the Smarter Balance (SBAC) test. They are part of that consortium. They just renamed it the "Badger Test" for their own purposes. See the article below.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/19...re-than-expected-in-wisconsin/


Breitbart.com? Really?

Sorry if you don't like that. If you prefer to read that the Badger Test is really the SBAC test in another place, look here:

http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/assessment/Smarter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Award winning teacher would not encourage young people to go into teaching because of CC:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/03/17/bts-nancie-atwell-teaching-award-million-dollars.cnn

The award-winning teacher has taught at a private school since 1990 and therefore has no experience -- none -- with the Common Core standards.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2015/03/16/393324420/nancie-atwell-of-maine-wins-1-million-global-teaching-prize

[Anonymous]

Award winning teacher would not encourage young people to go into teaching because of CC:

http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2015/03/17/bts-nan...hing-award-million-dollars.cnn

Great post.

[Anonymous]

The award-winning teacher has taught at a private school since 1990 and therefore has no experience -- none -- with the Common Core standards.

She has been teaching since 1973---over 40 years. She started an independent school in 1990 because she has principles about education. The CC is not philosophically compatible with her view of education. She could never do what she does now if she worked under CC. What she says about teachers and their role under CC is on the money. She doesn't live in an education bubble. Teachers do go to conferences, review materials and talk to each other---across the public-private spectrum. It's not some parallel world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The award-winning teacher has taught at a private school since 1990 and therefore has no experience -- none -- with the Common Core standards.

She has been teaching since 1973---over 40 years. She started an independent school in 1990 because she has principles about education. The CC is not philosophically compatible with her view of education. She could never do what she does now if she worked under CC. What she says about teachers and their role under CC is on the money. She doesn't live in an education bubble. Teachers do go to conferences, review materials and talk to each other---across the public-private spectrum. It's not some parallel world.

She is opining on something she has no actual, practical experience with it. She has had zero experience with any schools that are subject to state standards for 15 years. I don't see her views and opinions as relevant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Note that Wisconsin is using its own test.


No. Wisconsin is using the Smarter Balance (SBAC) test. They are part of that consortium. They just renamed it the "Badger Test" for their own purposes. See the article below.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/01/19...re-than-expected-in-wisconsin/


Breitbart.com? Really?

Sorry if you don't like that. If you prefer to read that the Badger Test is really the SBAC test in another place, look here:

http://oea.dpi.wi.gov/assessment/Smarter

And regardless of whether they call it Smarter Balanced or Badger or Cheesehead or whatever they like, it's still a test that is geared toward NCLB and Common Core compliance.

[Anonymous]

The award-winning teacher has taught at a private school since 1990 and therefore has no experience -- none -- with the Common Core standards.

Okay. But, Common Core supporters think it is okay to write standards without input from classroom teachers.

[Anonymous]

In fact, one of the teachers who claims to like Common Core and to have helped with it teachers in a private prep school in New England.

[Anonymous]

In fact, one of the teachers who claims to like Common Core and to have helped with it teachers in a private prep school in New England.

ooops.....
"teaches"

[Anonymous]

In fact, one of the teachers who claims to like Common Core and to have helped with it teachers in a private prep school in New England.

Who is this?

[Anonymous]

http://achievethecore.org/author/11/david-pook

I couldn't find his name on the Commoncore website. He thinks it's great though. Teaches at Derryfield in NH. 30K/yr tuition, I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

The award-winning teacher has taught at a private school since 1990 and therefore has no experience -- none -- with the Common Core standards.

Okay. But, Common Core supporters think it is okay to write standards without input from classroom teachers.

Um, no. Sorry, that one's already been debunked in this thread like 30 times, including with citations that came straight from the teachers unions.

[Anonymous]

Um, no. Sorry, that one's already been debunked in this thread like 30 times, including with citations that came straight from the teachers unions.

So, if the teachers' unions say it, it must be true? They were paid by Gates Foundation, as well. They got grants.