Classroom Chaos? Critics Blast New Common Core Education Standards
A full year before students around the nation submit to the new Common Core standardized tests, the federally-backed program is already causing chaos and confusion at local school board meetings, in the classroom and at the dinner table.
As critics fear Washington is poised to take control of what and how local districts teach kids, school administrators are adopting new curriculum in an effort to ensure their students outperform their peers and parents worry that their children are being used as academic guinea pigs. As the program gets closer to full implementation, a full-blown backlash is developing despite assurances from supporters that it is merely a test aimed at establishing a national standard. More
We had to get away from No Child Left Behind since our minorities were not doing at all well on the testing. The county keeps searching for a test that will indicate high ability and achievement. Millions of dollars later, it hasn't happened yet.
One size does not fit all. But our powers to be think so. This will be gone in a few years too.
ReplyDeleteWe had to get away from No Child Left Behind since our minorities were not doing at all well on the testing. The county keeps searching for a test that will indicate high ability and achievement. Millions of dollars later, it hasn't happened yet.
ReplyDeleteCommon Core has to go...
ReplyDeleteOur kids were smarter in the 80's... No Internet, little media, no ability to be anonymous.
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