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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/02/6-reasons-to-reject-common-core-k-3-standards-and-6-axioms-to-guide-policy/

[b]As a teacher for 24 years [/b]who has spent her entire career teaching inner city youth, all I can say is YES! [b]The standards are inappropriate for young children[/b]. Today was the last day of [b]NYS[/b] math tests, and [b]I had to supervise lovely, bright, hard-working students who were crying, sitting in fetal positions, asking me questions I was not allowed to answer, and two of them ended up in the nurse's office throwing up. [/b]The ELA test was entirely appropriate for 5th graders, not the third graders who endured 3 1/2 hours of it without the slightest chance of understanding it. The first two days of the math test were fair, full of questions that third graders can understand and reasonably answer. That was not the case today[b]. All of the adults had trouble answering a number of the questions[/b]. [b]Each question required 2 or 3 different computations and a level of math comprehension well beyond what a child this age could truly be expected to answer.[/b] Why are people with no credentials in these areas creating the standards, curriculum and testing? If this was any other field, there would be an uproar. Imagine if elementary teachers were creating standards for lawyers, if doctors created the standards for bankers, if politicians created the standards for medical care? Would it be acceptable? We are losing a generation of children to nonsense. It should be intolerable for everyone.[/quote]

New York State.   Not Common Core state Standards.   New York State.[/quote]

From NY State's website:

[i]Curriculum Supports for the Common Core
NYC is among the first large urban school districts in the nation to recommend new high-quality Core Curriculum materials, with ELL supports, for grades K- 8 in ELA and math that align to the [b]Common Core Learning Standards (CCLS) [/b]and promote the instructional shifts.  NYC is working to provide high school supports in ELA and math.

The below FAQs offer guidance to support educators in implementing the Core Curriculum:
FAQ: Pearson’s ReadyGen
FAQ: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Go Math!
FAQ: Scholastic’s Code X
FAQ: Pearson’s Connected Math Program 3[/i]

Sure as hell sounds like they are using common core curriculum materials, not NY State ones.

Nice try.[/quote]

NY has combined 2 things into 1.  One is the Core Knowledge Curriculum which was written well before Common Core and goes beyond Common Core in that it includes other subjects.  The other is that they have now adopted Common Core Standards.  Both initiatives have the word Core in them, but they are two separate things.  The reference to "Core Curriculum" above is a reference to NYS's Core Knowledge based curriculum.

Pretty much every text book manufacturer has come with new versions of their textbooks that they claim are aligned with the Common Core.  The good ones that people love, and the ones that people hate have both done this.  Common Core doesn't "approve" standards.  It is the responsibility of the State or Local Education Authority to review the text books and see if they match with what they hope to accomplish.   These are materials that NY State has chosen and purchased.  [/quote]

These books were specifically aligned with Common Core. The books are aligned with the standards, according to the NY website.  Those are the facts. You can twist those facts any way you choose, but the facts are there.  You are incorrect in your assumption that they are speaking of two different things. I know you REALLY want it to be that, but it's simply not. I know many teachers in NY (I have family there) and they are quite emphatic about the fact that what you are saying is incorrect.[/quote]

Yes, the books are aligned I said that in the post you are disagreeing with.  There are plenty of other choices for books that are also aligned.  Some are better than others.  The materials that the school IDC Charter) I teach at uses are also aligned, and do not contain the errors that are reported.  The 2.0 curricular materials that my son's school uses in MCPS are also designed to be aligned with CCSS, they do not contain these errors.  NYS needs to take responsibility for choosing bad books.  [/quote]

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