Teachers, parents souring on Common Core across U.S.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

BUUUULLSHIIIT!!!

First of all, Common Core is a minimum standard. Schools are perfectly free to go above and beyond Common Core. As for geometry, there IS an expectation of Geometry content in Common Core in Middle School grades. http://www.corestandards.org/Math/Content/G/ Also, there is still Pre-Algebra, it's in the 7th and 8th grade standards. Schools are free to move students ahead, provided they've mastered the content, so to say Algebra couldn't be started in 8th grade is not actually valid.

In fact, Algebra 1 in 8th grade is the grade-level course in the MCPS curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards. So it obviously is possible to do so.

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/math/math-curriculum-plan.aspx

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Osceola Co. teachers resign en masse over Common Core demands

http://www.wftv.com/news/news/local/osceola-co-teachers-resigning-en-masse-over-common/njPXY/

SCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. —

More than 20 teachers have resigned or decided to retire from the Osceola County School District in just the past month -- and the district already had a shortage with more than 50 vacant teaching jobs.

The teachers’ union told Channel 9’s Deneige Broom that some of them quit because they're fed up with standardized testing.

At Kissimmee Elementary, they need to fill two spots. At the nearby middle school, three spots are open.

The union president believes many of the now vacant spots are because of testing.

"Fed up with standardized testing?" Florida is only having its first full assessment for the first time THIS year, so how can they already be fed up with standardized testing? Unless they are referring to prior years of non-Common Core standardized testing... Again, another bogus article.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2014/12/new_test_shows_deeper_academic.html

Most Alabama Students Fall Short on Common-Core Test
By Catherine Gewertz on December 12, 2014 11:27 AM

The drumbeat has been getting louder as PARCC and Smarter Balanced tests get closer: Many students are expected to fall short of proficiency marks on those new, presumably tougher exams. But those kinds of sobering results are showing up on other common-core tests, as well.

The ACT's Aspire, designed to reflect the common core, has produced its first round of statewide results. In nearly every grade and both subjects, more than half of Alabama's students fall below the cut points that connote being on track for success in college, according to local news media reports. The tests in reading and ...

That Alabama is expecting lousy results is a function of the lousy curriculum THEY ALREADY HAD BEFORE COMMON CORE!

Another article fail.

[Anonymous]

"Fed up with standardized testing?" Florida is only having its first full assessment for the first time THIS year, so how can they already be fed up with standardized testing? Unless they are referring to prior years of non-Common Core standardized testing... Again, another bogus article.

You obviously don't understand just how much time the teachers are expected to spend in testing. Even K teachers. More time testing, less time teaching.

[Anonymous]

In fact, Algebra 1 in 8th grade is the grade-level course in the MCPS curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards. So it obviously is possible to do so.

Sadly, some kids do not benefit from taking algebra before high school. Some kids are not developmentally ready.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

In fact, Algebra 1 in 8th grade is the grade-level course in the MCPS curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards. So it obviously is possible to do so.

Sadly, some kids do not benefit from taking algebra before high school. Some kids are not developmentally ready.

That is true. So, if you look at the MCPS math progression link, you'll see that the slower paced kids will take Alg. in 9th grade, and the more advanced kids will take Alg. in 7th grade. MCPS wants the bulk of the students to take Alg. by 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

In fact, Algebra 1 in 8th grade is the grade-level course in the MCPS curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards. So it obviously is possible to do so.

Sadly, some kids do not benefit from taking algebra before high school. Some kids are not developmentally ready.

The Common Core standards are bad because they do not allow children to take algebra before high school. Also, the Common Core standards are bad because they require children to take algebra before high school.

(As a matter of fact, the MCPS curriculum aligned to the Common Core standards does not require children to take algebra before high school.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

"Fed up with standardized testing?" Florida is only having its first full assessment for the first time THIS year, so how can they already be fed up with standardized testing? Unless they are referring to prior years of non-Common Core standardized testing... Again, another bogus article.

You obviously don't understand just how much time the teachers are expected to spend in testing. Even K teachers. More time testing, less time teaching.

OK, but how does that relate to the Common Core standards? If the Common Core standards disappeared tomorrow, there would be exactly as much standardized testing. That is because the standardized testing is not due to the Common Core standards; it's due to a federal law from 2001.

[Anonymous]

Common Core standards are bad because one size does not fit all. The states are dropping them like flies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Common Core standards are bad because one size does not fit all. The states are dropping them like flies.

Ah, you are in the #3 (Common Core standards are bad because they are standards) camp.

Here are the states that have actually dropped the Common Core standards:

Oklahoma
Indiana

Not my educational role models.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2014/0910/What-have-states-actually-done-in-crusade-against-Common-Core-video

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Common Core standards are bad because one size does not fit all. The states are dropping them like flies.

Some states are modifying the CC standards, while others are adopting new ones. The vast majority are not dropping CC standards. Most educators know that something needs to be done because of the disparities in education within the US, and compared to other 1st world countries, our education in public schools suck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

"Fed up with standardized testing?" Florida is only having its first full assessment for the first time THIS year, so how can they already be fed up with standardized testing? Unless they are referring to prior years of non-Common Core standardized testing... Again, another bogus article.

You obviously don't understand just how much time the teachers are expected to spend in testing. Even K teachers. More time testing, less time teaching.

That's not a function of Common Core, that's a function of ANY assessment. Most school districts around the country had some form of standardized testing long before Common Core came along, so to now suddenly start complaining and to then direct blame at Common Core seems pretty damned disingenuous.

Plus, without standardized testing, you have no real way of knowing how well students are actually doing, or how they stack up against student performance in other districts and states. You essentially then have no real objective metrics for comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

You oppose the Common Core standards because they're not a change, and because publishing companies make money by publishing educational materials related (or supposedly related) to the Common Core standards?

Well, ok.

#6. Many CC standards are taking time away from real instruction in the classroom. Teachers and students are "boxed in" to certain procedures that are unnecessary in many cases.

Please provide an example of a Common Core standard that precludes real instruction and requires the teaching of unnecessary procedures.

Yes do tell.

[Anonymous]

Yes, a REAL example please - and don't just give us some supposed "Common Core worksheet" from some viral chain email (because those are full of falsehoods) - cite an ACTUAL and SPECIFIC standard from here: http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/

[Anonymous]

Yes, a REAL example please - and don't just give us some supposed "Common Core worksheet" from some viral chain email (because those are full of falsehoods) - cite an ACTUAL and SPECIFIC standard from here: http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/

See other threads. There is plenty.