Gov. Kasich calls many teachers hysterical. (46% of teachers favor Common Core; 40% oppose.) Also calls many Republican voters hysterical. (43% of GOP voters favor CC; 37% oppose.) The trend of public opinion is flowing against CC. (2014 EdNext survey) EXCERPT Ohio is one of 45 states whose state boards of education adopted the Common Core standards, a federally-promoted education initiative introduced in the Obama administration’s 2009 stimulus bill through a competitive grant program called Race to the Top (RttT). States could apply and compete for federal grant money as long as they adopted a set of “common,” uniform standards and aligned testing that allows for a greater role of government in education, student data collection, and teacher evaluations based on student performance on assessments aligned with the standards. The state boards of education that signed onto the unproven Common Core standards — most of them unelected — did so with little, if any, public or media scrutiny, prior to even seeing the standards themselves. The National Governors Association (NGA), the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and nonprofit progressive education think tank Achieve, Inc. were mainly responsible for the initiative, and both the NGA and the CCSSO are the publishers of the Common Core State Standards. All three groups were funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The two interstate test consortia — Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) and the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) — are developing assessments based on the Common Core standards and are funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 08:36:22 +0000
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