Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 0 views
-
The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
-
Steve Ransom on 06 Mar 13Instead of concept development...
-
-
Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
-
I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
- ...7 more annotations...