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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With that facepalm I suggest you apply a little more force in the hopes it slaps a little sense into you.

Common Core is a STATE initiative.

Repeat after me: STATE

S-T-A-T-E

Get it right.   Nobody who actually knows the facts is interested in your bullshit narrative about "federal government".

Got it?[/quote]

Use your palm to slap your face.

Common Core standards are for each state, yes.  And yes, the states can opt out - just as some did with NCLB.  However, they'll lose federal funding.

However, they were collaboratively created under the guidance of representatives from 48 states - http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/

[quote]The state-led effort to develop the Common Core State Standards was launched in 2009 by state leaders, including governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, two territories and the District of Columbia, through their membership in the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). State school chiefs and governors recognized the value of consistent, real-world learning goals and launched this effort to ensure all students, regardless of where they live, are graduating high school prepared for college, career, and life.[/quote]

You can argue your point all you want, but when 48 states - and DC - are involved in this framework, it's national, sweetie.

Furthermore, our own Bill Gates was the push behind them - http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/24/following-the-common-core-money-where-are-millions-of-dollars-going/

I am not against the CC.  I have used the standards to create frameworks for smaller systems. However, they are quite rigorous and require that teachers understand that discourse is the heart of the standards.  Furthermore, teachers should be scaffolding in their sleep.

[quote]To understand the answer, one needs to go back to 2007.  That is the year that Common Core Inc. was founded, three years before the standards were made public. In 2009, it received over a half million dollars in the form of a grant from the Gates Foundation to write curriculum for standards that had not yet been released nor adopted by states.
Last week, Catholic Education Daily reported on the connection between Common Core Inc. and the Gates Foundation in a story entitled “Common Core is Curriculum, Contrary to Advocates’ Claims.”

The story reports that despite Bill Gates’ claim that there was no need to build national Common Core curriculum, he has, through his grant program, quietly funded its development in excess of  $10 million, with Common Core Inc. being the first to receive a grant. According to authors Gigante and Archbold, “Despite the overlap between corporate branding, mission, funding and leadership, Common Core Inc. claims that it is ‘not affiliated with the Common Core Standards’.”  The article suggests that although some advocates of the Common Core claim that they want to only nationalize standards, their true intent is to nationalize a still experimental curriculum. Despite repeated attempts, Common Core Inc. has not responded to their inquiries.

The Gates Foundation appears to have a partner in New York State when it comes to curriculum development. The New York State Regents Research fund has received millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation to further its reform agenda. But more importantly, the State Education Department has helped finance the effort to create curriculum by using more than $28 million in Race to the Top federal taxpayer dollars. And it appears that one of the recipients, Common Core Inc., intends to influence curriculum beyond New York State. A search of the Common Core Inc. site shows that the organization will sell textbook editions of the work that they did for New York, thus leveraging New York’s tax dollars to launch a textbook series.[/quote][/quote]

Thank you for making this post. All I could do was face palm.

Now listen to the smart pp, all![/quote]

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