#CommonCore is latest front in decades-long education wars Op-ed in EdSource The fact that Common Core was created under the aegis of the nation’s governors and state school superintendents for voluntary adoption by the states hasn’t kept conservatives from describing it as yet another attempt by the administration to expand federal control. In some circles, it’s now become “Obamacore.” California has escaped most of that because, in the words of Stanford Education Prof. Linda Darling-Hammond, “California has done it better, with care and focus, in a logical order and without punitive stakes.” Which is to say that since test scores have no bearing on teacher evaluations here, the teachers unions have been neutralized. California Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction Deb Sigman, California’s testing honcho and co-chair of the Smarter Balanced Testing Consortium, also credits the transparency of the adoption process. In the past few months, nearly 2 million California students have been part of the Smarter Balanced exam field-testing regimen – testing the test – which, Sigman said, has “gone incredibly well.” Read more here: edsource.org/2014/common-core-is-latest-front-in-decades-long-education-wars/61613#.U2f__a1dWJV
Posted on: Wed, 07 May 2014 22:00:01 +0000
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