"Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests
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Anonymous
Not so nutty when you look at the bios of those who wrote them. Check out their connections. |
Anonymous
If you'd like to post that information, I'd be happy to look at it. |
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Pearson admits in their own material that people who work for them are authors of the CC standards. By their own admission: see this link: http://assets.pearsonschool.com/asset_mgr/current/201250/SAS_CCSS_Overview.pdf
There have been plenty of links on this thread that show the involvement of Pearson (and their subsidiary Achieve) in the CC standard writing process. Pearson had a huge unfair advantage over any other competitor in developing materials for CC. Plus the roll out has been so fast that nobody else (private or public) could possibly have time to develop materials. And the materials are not based on authentic classroom experience (because there has been no time for that kind of feedback either). |
Anonymous
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Below are the authors of the CC standards.
Source: http://www.nga.org/cms/home/news-room/news-releases/page_2009/col2-content/main-content-list/title_common-core-state-standards-development-work-group-and-feedback-group-announced.html The members of the mathematics Work Group are: Sara Clough, Director, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc.[ Phil Daro, Senior Fellow, America's Choice Susan K. Eddins, Educational Consultant, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy (Retired) Kaye Forgione, Senior Associate and Team Leader for Mathematics, Achieve John Kraman, Associate Director, Research, Achieve Marci Ladd, Mathematics Consultant, The College Board & Senior Manager and Mathematics Content Lead, Academic Benchmarks William McCallum, University Distinguished Professor and Head, Department of Mathematics, The University of Arizona &Mathematics Consultant, Achieve Sherri Miller, Assistant Vice President, Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc. Ken Mullen, Senior Program Development Associate—Mathematics, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc. Robin O'Callaghan, Senior Director, Mathematics, Research and Development, The College Board Andrew Schwartz, Assessment Manager, Research and Development, The College Board Laura McGiffert Slover, Vice President, Content and Policy Research, Achieve Douglas Sovde, Senior Associate, Mathematics, Achieve Natasha Vasavada, Senior Director, Standards and Curriculum Alignment Services, Research and Development, The College Board Jason Zimba, Faculty Member, Physics, Mathematics, and the Center for the Advancement of Public Action, Bennington College and Cofounder, Student Achievement Partners Members of the English-language Arts Work Group are: Sara Clough, Director, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc. David Coleman, Founder, Student Achievement Partners Sally Hampton, Senior Fellow for Literacy, America's Choice Joel Harris, Director, English Language Arts Curriculum and Standards, Research and Development, The College Board Beth Hart, Senior Assessment Specialist, Research and Development, The College Board John Kraman, Associate Director, Research, Achieve Laura McGiffert Slover, Vice President, Content and Policy Research, Achieve Nina Metzner, Senior Test Development Associate—Language Arts, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc. Sherri Miller, Assistant Vice President, Educational Planning and Assessment System (EPAS) Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc. Sandy Murphy, Professor Emeritus, University of California – Davis Jim Patterson, Senior Program Development Associate—Language Arts, Elementary and Secondary School Programs, Development, Education Division, ACT, Inc. Sue Pimentel, Co-Founder, StandardsWork; English Language Arts Consultant, Achieve Natasha Vasavada, Senior Director, Standards and Curriculum Alignment Services, Research and Development, The College Board Martha Vockley, Principal and Founder, VockleyLang, LLC |
Anonymous
So in order to advertise their services, they say that they have hired people who wrote the Common Core standards. Well, ok. If I were advertising my services, I'd say the same thing. However, the PP claimed (or I understand the PP to claim) that the people who wrote the Common Core standards were working for Pearson. This does not support that claim. Also, Achieve is not "a subsidiary" of Pearson, no matter how many times posters on DCUM claim that Achieve is. http://www.achieve.org/about-us http://www.achieve.org/our-board-directors http://www.achieve.org/staff http://www.achieve.org/contributors |
Anonymous
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Your timeline and conclusions are quite mangled.
None of the folks who worked on the standards were Pearson or Achieve employees at the time that the standards were developed. Any company that won a contract for developing tests that are supposed to assess to a standard would be foolish to not reach out to the folks who were involved in developing the standards to hire them as consultants. Simple logic, nothing nefarious about that. |
Anonymous
ACT, College Board, et cetera. Looks like people who have a shitload of background and experience in developing standardized testing. Apparently your preference would have been to hire people who don't know a fucking thing about standardized testing. 
*This* is why people think your argument is idiotic. Do you still not understand any of this? |
Anonymous
The response to this will be that the Common Core standards are bad because no teachers were involved. This tactic is called the Gish Gallop: http://blogs.bu.edu/pbokulic/2013/11/18/gish-gallop-fallacy-of-the-day/ |
Anonymous
Huh? This is not a "tactic". It's what really happened. |
Anonymous
That's all it's been from the get-go. Just one baseless assertion after another. The PP keeps wailing nonsense, like "it's developmentally inappropriate, there were no teachers involved" yadda yadda yadda... And when the argument is pointed out as baseless, they just start right back in again with the same old crap. Frankly I'm not sure the PP is even capable of understanding anything other than the talking points he/she keeps repeating over and over. The PP obviously has not read or understood a single thing anyone else has posted. |
Anonymous
So, the ends justify the means? You've got the "teaching to the test" people writing the standards. Instead of thinking about what kids should learn, they may very well be thinking about standards that are easy to test. That could be a problem. At the very least there should be more perspective. |
Anonymous
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If lots of students fail the standardized tests, will the standards be changed or will the tests be changed? Chicken or egg? |
Anonymous
There are many, many posters here against the Common Core. We've posted endless links and news stories, quotes from teachers across the country, and yet you think there's no opposition. In fact, the opposition is huge, and it will grow to tidal wave force once the testing hits -- and the dismal results come in. |
Anonymous
Good question. Most likely, political heads will roll. Common Core has already been defunded, and once they can get rid of Duncan who is wielding his NCLB waivers as threats to force the Common Core and testing, people will likely pull back from the core. It's too bad -- it was a good idea. But the standards are written in a way to micromanage learning and the testing boxes in teachers to teach to the test. |
Anonymous
No, Common Core has not been defunded. What was defunded (by Congress) were the federal Race to the Top grants. |