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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saw a couple friends over the weekend who are teachers in Massachusetts.  When I asked about CC, they shrugged and said it really wasn't that different from what they were doing before.  But they could understand how parents/teachers living in states with previously less rigorous standards may be less enthusiastic about the changes (I'm the PP with a SIL in a southern state who is really against CC).[/quote]

My brother and SIL live in MA and saw such a difference that they called me to ask about it. They tend not to follow this stuff and were very upset at what they were seeing, esp. in mathematics.[/quote]

It might do them well to follow the ACTUAL education discussion, instead probably just hearing the uninformed, conspiratorial FUD from the extreme right and left wings.[/quote]

I gave them the ACTUAL education discussion - it's all over the news as the initial testing comes in. The reality isn't living up to the hype, and they are mired right now in the reality.[/quote]

If the "actual" was anecdotes and pictures of an inscrutable "Common Core Worksheet" - basically what we've seen on this message board - then you didn't give them the "actual".[/quote]

I used the NYT and WP as references. I assume they pass the liberal litmus test?[/quote]

The NYT may pass a litmus test.  But it has been doing as piss poor a job at reporting on Common Core as everyone else.

Here's on article about push back on Common Core in NYS.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/17/nyregion/new-york-early-champion-of-common-core-standards-joins-critics.html?_r=0

Note that the examples given include a 2nd grade teacher teaching about ancient Greece, and a first grade teacher teaching about the difference in farming techniques between Ancient Mesopotamia, and ancient Greece.   NOT required topics under Common Core (which has no specific content requirements in history).  The NYT should have made it clear that the teachers and principals and parents were complaining about the curriculum that Mew York State decided to implement above and beyond what Common Core required.

The complaints also were about the decision of NYS Dept of Ed to go ahead with its own tests, not wait for the PARCC.

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