Reply to Why are people so upset about Common Core?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Why are people so upset about Common Core?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sample HW assignment for a typical middle school student:

40 minutes:   read 2 chapters in a play   (fiction) and fill out worksheet

30 minutes:   read Unit 7:  Magnetic Forces in science textbook and answer questions at back of book

30 minutes:  read magazine article on current situation in the Ukraine for current events assignment; write summary

total:   100 minutes of reading

40% fiction
60% non-fiction

[/quote]

When materials for CC are developed by the same people writing the standards AND the same people creating the tests, including the SATs and ACT, you can easily see the potential for corruption of the highest level.  This is why I say, you THINK as a teacher you will have control over how you teach the standards, but you will not.

The fact your only sources for anything you post is the standards themselves, is like referencing whitehouse.gov or anything Jay Carney says when you get your news. It's short-sighted and frankly, not terribly deep. You don't seem to want to look any deeper at all, which is rather robotic. More power to you - glad my children aren't involved with you in the schools in any way.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics