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Why I Cannot Support the Common Core Standards | Diane Ravitch's blog - 1 views

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CCSS Con_on_core

shared by Marsha Ratzel on 14 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • hey should be thoroughly tested to see how they work in real classrooms;
  • they should be free of any mandates that tell teachers how to teach because there are many ways to be a good teacher, not just one.
  • I can’t wait five or ten years to find out whether test scores go up or down, whether or not schools improve, and whether the kids now far behind are worse off than they are today.
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    • Marsha Ratzel
      Marsha Ratzel on 14 Jun 14
       
      I do think she has a point here....they say it wasn't a national effort but what they mean is that it wasn't a federal government effort.  Gates definitlely wanted naitonal standards b/c of their beliefs it would improve education
  • hat no one has any idea how they will affect students, teachers, or schools.
  • Common Core standards effort is fundamentally flawed by the process with which they have been foisted upon the nation.
  • They were developed by an organization called Achieve and the National Governors Association, both of which were generously funded by the Gates Foundation. There was minimal public engagement in the development of the Common Core. Their creation was neither grassroots nor did it emanate from the states.
  • but in this case the Department figured out a clever way to evade the letter of the law
  • The flap over fiction vs. informational text further undermined my confidence in the standards. There is no reason for national standards to tell teachers what percentage of their time should be devoted to literature or information. Both can develop the ability to think critically. The claim that the writers of the standards picked their arbitrary ratios because NAEP has similar ratios makes no sense. NAEP gives specifications to test-developers, not to classroom teachers.
    • Marsha Ratzel
      Marsha Ratzel on 14 Jun 14
       
      I really disagree with this.  In my humble experience of two decades, ELA teachers love their fiction, book studies and poetry units.  Not so much on non-fiction...definitely not technical or strictly informational reading.  Since CCSS, I have gotten more assistance from my ELA people than in all other years put together.   Without this push, I don't think ELA teachers would have migrated to science (social studies is a slightly different thing) as easily.
  • is that I am worried that they will cause a precipitous decline in test scores, based on arbitrary cut scores, and this will have a disparate impact on students who are English language learners, students with disabilities, and students who are poor and low-performing.
  • Now that David Coleman, the architect of the Common Core standards, has become president of the College Board, we can expect that the SAT will be aligned to the standards. No one will escape their reach, whether they attend public or private school.
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