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Carol Burris, a principal, takes apart the Common Core:

http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2014/09/24/common_core_education_principal_carol_burris_1105.html

'I didn't do my due diligence': New York high school principal and book author Carol Burris discusses why her views reversed on the Common Core State Standards.

A lot of people have strong feelings about the new Common Core State Standards that schools in more than 40 states have adopted. But Carol Burris may be unique. She’s had strong feelings for the standards and against them. And that’s just in the past two years.

"[b]we had a superficial view of the standards. [/b]The high school math standards, for example, had not come out yet. A lot of our knowledge of the standards at the time was what we read about the standards, and it all just seemed to make some sense."

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"What I object to in the Common Core standards is the push toward certain pedagogical practices[/b]. I think that standards, both state and national, should be pedagogically neutral, and that decisions as to how a teacher teaches should be left to the individual district."

"Starting with the standards for [b]kindergarten math, [Common Core] says that kids should be able to count by 1s and 10s from 1 to 100. It seems innocuous enough, but the problem with it is that most 5-year-olds are capable because of that mixture of biology and learning that happens with little kids to count to 20.[/b] Some can count more, some can probably count to 100 in French, but then there are also going to be kids that just cannot do it at that point in time."

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