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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Common Core now bringing Holocaust Denial to your local school, yaaay!

http://ktla.com/2014/05/05/rialto-assignment-asking-to-students-to-question-holocaust-to-be-revised/#axzz30sp8CKDK

[quote]The Rialto school district planned to revise an eighth-grade assignment that raised red flags by asking students to consider arguments about whether the Holocaust — the systematic killing by the Nazis of some 6 million Jews and millions of others — was not an “actual event” but instead a “propaganda tool that was used for political and monetary gain.”
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The English/Language Arts assignment, first reported Sunday by the San Bernardino Sun and provided to KTLA by the newspaper, asked students to write an argumentative essay about the Holocaust describing “whether or not you believe this was an actual event in history, or merely a political scheme created to influence public emotion and gain wealth.”
rialto

The 18-page assignment instructions included three sources that students were told to use, including one that stated gassings in concentration camps were a “hoax” and that no evidence has shown Jews died in gas chambers.[/quote]

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Please cite the specific Common Core standard according to which 8th graders are supposed to write an essay about whether or not the Holocaust happened. Thanks.[/quote]

This was more about the way the district interpreted the standards - their words, not mine[/quote]

No it has nothing to do with "interpretation of the standards"

The standard was clear to all.   Write an argumentative essay.

No one misinterpreted this standard.

When schools and teachers are given a standard, it is THEIR job to develop the curriculum: the materials and methods that will be used to teach to that standard.   The school district, schools and teachers (depending on how top-down the district is) have the responsibility of deciding HOW they will teach their 8th grade students to write an argumentative essay.  Their job is to either select the materials and design the lesson plans, or go to a publishing company or teacherspayteachers.org or some other place, and purchase a curriculum unit together with selected readings; or purchase a Writing the Argumentative Essay workbook ... or computer program.... there are lots of different curricula out there, and school districts, or teachers, get to choose what method and materials they wish to use.

This school district either chose the Holocaust readings, or individual teachers did -- whoever, it is not clear.   But the fact is this had nothing to do with "implementation of the standards".

Unless by "implementation of the standards" you mean "selecting the curriculum"?

Wait -- are you saying that the problem with Common Core is in the implementation of the standards, i.e.  "selecting the curriculum (readings, assignments, etc)"?

Teachers and school districts were given local control of selecting the curriculum, and they chose poorly; therefore that's a flaw in Common Core?   Is that your argument?[/quote]

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