5 Things Every Parent Needs to Know About The Common Core - School Leadership 2.0 - 0 views
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1: Common Core is a set of standards, not a curriculum
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The Common Core provides a destination, and schools and teachers are free to chart their own course there. This illustrates an important distinction between standards and curriculum. If you imagine standards as a destination, the curriculum is the map to get there. A curriculum outlines the sequence of topics that teachers will cover on their way to the final goal of the standards, building from simpler tasks to more difficult and complex ones.
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2: Common Core began as a bipartisan effort born out of No Child Left Behind
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