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Saturday, June 08, 2013

Common Core: What Is It Anyway?

“Stop fed ed.” “Rotten to the core.”

These have become battle cries of opponents of the Common Core State Standards, a national list of school benchmarks for K-12 students set to go into full effect in the 2013-2014 school year in Maryland.

The standards, adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia, aim to make students better prepared for college and careers by setting clear goals for reading, writing, speaking and listening, language and mathematics in school.

So, what’s the problem with Common Core? Tea Partiers, disgruntled parents and some teachers oppose what they see as increased centralization and teaching to the test. They also say schools’ technology lags behind what’s needed to assess the standards.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Just another "thing" teachers need to do only to be replaced by something else the "will work" No Child Left Behind was so SOS so goo.. But now is being replaced with common core... What's next? Let the teachers teach! Hold parents accountable for behavior and classroom distruptions and things will be fine

Anonymous said...

I have a common cure. Keep all the kids that want to learn in school and throw out the ones that are disruptive and are just taking up space. It can be done if we can find a "get tough school board", and leadership.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
I have a common cure. Keep all the kids that want to learn in school and throw out the ones that are disruptive and are just taking up space. It can be done if we can find a "get tough school board", and leadership.

June 8, 2013 at 12:45 PM

But it's for the children they will say. Every employee of the Central Office at he BOE make over $100K/yr.

Anonymous said...

"get tough school board"

good luck -- as long as this BOE takes state and federal money to keep bad kids in school & keep the suspension rate low, it will never happen.

Anonymous said...

Almost all of the money and personnel are devoted to students who refuse to work now and don't plan to work in the future either. Improve education by reducing welfare. If kids know they will need to work to support themselves, they might try to learn something.