After the Common Core Initiative was launched in early 2009, the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers never explained to the public what the qualifications were for membership on the standards-writing committees or how it would justify the specific standards they created. Most important, it never explained why Common Core’s high school exit standards were equal to college admission requirements without qualification, even though this country’s wide ranging post-secondary institutions use a variety of criteria for admission. Eventually responding to the many charges of a lack of transparency, the names of the 24 members of the “Standards Development Work Group” were revealed in a July 1, 2009 news release. The vast majority, it appeared, work for testing companies. Not only did CCSSI give no rationale for the composition of this Work Group, it gave no rationale for the people it put on the two three-member teams in charge of writing the grade-level standards. [Emphasis added.] As the CCSS MOU notes, this “Standards Development Work Group” is overwhelmingly comprised of Achieve, ACT and College Board members. Alabama has rescinded the MOU for Alabama. It means nothing. We have the common core standards, aligned texts, ACT testing, and we are losing local control faster than we can gain it. Parents are experiencing the frustration of parents all over the nation.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 22:24:16 +0000
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