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[quote=Anonymous]http://www.buffalonews.com/city-region/common-core-standards-shift-the-look-of-learning-20150103

More teachers take apart the Common Core:

"Russo supports some aspects of the Common Core standards. But like many teachers, she has concerns about the pace in which they’ve been rolled out.

The standards set out a narrowly focused framework for what students should learn from kindergarten until they graduate high school. Each grade builds on what students have learned in earlier grades. But middle and high school students who are switching to Common Core in recent years didn’t have the benefit of starting in kindergarten. As a result, teachers have had to play catch up with concepts that would have been taught in later grades.

[b]“You wouldn’t give a 16-year-old a driver’s license and then put him on the NASCAR track to start,” Russo said. “And that’s what it feels like.” [/b] "

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"The link between Common Core standards, new state tests and teacher evaluations hastened the backlash against the Common Core in New York. [b]Critics argue that you can’t separate the three[/b].

“The truth of the matter is, a teacher can look at a standard and say, ‘gee whiz, that sounds pretty good,’?” said Carol Burris, a Long Island principal who has been one of the state’s most outspoken critics of Common Core. “But the translation of that standard is in the test items.[b] So if you don’t like the New York State Common Core tests, you’re really saying you don’t like the standards. They don’t exist outside the realm of testin[/b]g.”

All three reform efforts – the new standards, new state tests and teacher evaluations – were tied to the state’s winning federal Race to the Top money.

“They came out like a trinity, like the three-in-one,” McKenna said. “So it’s very difficult to separate them, because they were created and rolled out together like a package deal, and I think that that’s why there’s so much angst.”[/quote]

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