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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP sounds like they work for CommonLit or DCPS. Most parents are complaining because CommonLit removes ALL books from the curriculum. One novel per quarter seems doable and yet DCPS gave the green light to this program without any tweaks.

Because they are lazy. They don’t want to customize. They rolled this pilot out with a few weeks notice to parents in August. They rolled it out so quickly that they didn’t have time to institute any customizations. This is being piloted to the detriment of students for one whole school year.

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I don't work for common lit or DCPS. I'm a parent but have done a lot of curriculum work. [/quote]

And to follow up on this ... from my perspective DCPS (and other school districts) should be using an externally vetted curriculum that is all green on Ed Reports. There are other open-source curricula that fit the bill and have more novels; DCPS could have gone with one of those. For example, Guidebooks is highly regarded, uses full length texts each quarter as the base of its curriculum, and has a free version that DCPS could use. In 8th, for example, students read Freak the Mighty, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Call of the Wild, and Animal Farm, along with other shorter texts. This is actually the one I would have wanted them to pick. Nevertheless, Common Lit is very good and highly regarded by experts.

Ed Reports: https://edreports.org/reports/overview/learnzillion-guidebooks-2018

Guidebooks: https://louisianacurriculumhub.com[/quote]

Excuse me if I fail to have faith in the education policy community. They are the ones who convinced everyone to do “whole language,” let out kids be taught math by computer app, tried to get rid of algebra in middle school, and the like. Some things are just intuitive ans common sense, including that more novels are better. [/quote]

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