But the cruelest irony of the Common Core mathematics is in the huge negative impact it is bound to have on the achievement of minority and disadvantaged students. Those are precisely the students who need rigorous expectations from early elementary grades within their regular curriculum, as they are less likely to get family or paid extra-curricular support. Massive and robust data from the California experiment over the last 15 years clearly demonstrates this fact. Yet despite its soaring rhetoric of college-readiness for all, the Common Core has abandoned precisely these students. americanprinciplesproject.org/app-education/new-white-paper-why-students-need-strong-standards-and-not-common-core/
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 23:36:02 +0000
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