Why hasn't Virginia adopted Common Core Standards?

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Anonymous wrote:I teach music, so am not as impacted by Common Core. That being said, my sister is a professor at a large university, and focuses on Education Policy in her research. She, and most of her colleagues have told me I should be grateful Virginia chose not to adopt Common Core. (I cannot recall their specific reasons...)

Thank you for that insightful response.

My apologies I did not meet your posting standards. I wad simply pointing out that educational researchers at a major university find Common Core to be flawed, and that if they were advisng, they would recommend that states decline. Next time I'll be sure to have links to articles and direct quotes.

Other researchers think it's excellent.

What's wrong with having national standards of what kids should know when?

You understand that CC isn't a curriculum, right? That it doesn't tell schools how to teach?

Common Core IS a curriculum. A curriculum defines what is taught - it doesn’t tell teachers HOW to teach it.

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I think a lot of the controversy with the Common Core has not been about the standards - they are generally acceptable goals to most. The controversy has been around (1)the assessment of the standards - the focus on testing and not on teaching and the manner in which they are assessed and (2) the materials and methods used to teach the standards.

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I suspect the tests are being written "on the fly" by publishing companies. I would like to see the validation process and statistics.

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Back in the day, standardized tests were developed over years after trial after trial. They were studied for validity and reliability. I don't think that is happening now.

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Validity: Does the test really test what it is supposed to test? From some of the test questions I have seen, I doubt it.\
Reliability: Will the test get the same results repeatedly? I doubt these will.

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Common Core, like NCLB, is all about testing. Sure, they tell you it will test critical thinking--but that is very difficult to do and that is why we are seeing such stupid questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at the map on the Common Core site http://www.corestandards.org/standards-in-your-state/ I see that Virginia is among the few states that have not adopted the standards. Does anyone know why that is? Does Viginia have a plan to adopt Common Core in the near future? Is it the Viginia state legislature that makes the decision as to whether or not Virginia public schools follow Common Core?

I don't know, but I hope it stays that way. Common Core is just an attempt to stamp out student individuality and relegate teachers to the status of droning automata.

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Looking at the map on the Common Core site http://www.corestandards.org/standards-in-your-state/ I see that Virginia is among the few states that have not adopted the standards. Does anyone know why that is? Does Viginia have a plan to adopt Common Core in the near future? Is it the Viginia state legislature that makes the decision as to whether or not Virginia public schools follow Common Core?
I don't know, but I hope it stays that way. Common Core is just an attempt to stamp out student individuality and relegate teachers to the status of droning automata.

+1000

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It would be so simple if we could judge student and teacher success by multiple choice tests. It just does not work that way.

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Should be called Lowest COMMON Denominator CORE.

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Anonymous wrote:...ecause education policy should be done at the state and local level.

+1000

+ infinity, as the children say!

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Anonymous wrote:Should be called Lowest COMMON Denominator CORE.

I know, right?

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Anonymous wrote:More leftist indoctrination? McAwful will be on it soon enough.

Love it-McAwful! I thought I was the only one in the area who didn't vote for this joker!

I didn't either.

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It's all in the long, misguided VA tradition of "we don't want those feds telling us what to do." See, e.g., desegregation. It's ultimately going to harm VA students in at least one concrete way - the new SAT is purportedly being based on Common Core.

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Anonymous wrote:I teach music, so am not as impacted by Common Core. That being said, my sister is a professor at a large university, and focuses on Education Policy in her research. She, and most of her colleagues have told me I should be grateful Virginia chose not to adopt Common Core. (I cannot recall their specific reasons...)

Thank you for that insightful response.

My apologies I did not meet your posting standards. I wad simply pointing out that educational researchers at a major university find Common Core to be flawed, and that if they were advisng, they would recommend that states decline. Next time I'll be sure to have links to articles and direct quotes.

Other researchers think it's excellent.

What's wrong with having national standards of what kids should know when?

You understand that CC isn't a curriculum, right? That it doesn't tell schools how to teach?

Common Core IS a curriculum. A curriculum defines what is taught - it doesn’t tell teachers HOW to teach it.

No. I'm not sure you understand the meaning of the word "curriculum." A curriculum is a program of study -- i.e. the HOW you're going to learn something. Common Core merely sets agreed-upon standards of what should be learned. A curriculum, by definition, does prescribe how to teach something. What to read, the pedagogy, what courses have to be taken, the content of the courses, etc. etc.

Maybe you should start with a little education yourself before you involve yourself in this conversation. You're out of your league.