Robert ValiantDump Duncan A fellow Rotarian was defending Common Core at our club meeting yesterday. Here are my top 10 reasons for opposing the core: The Top Ten Things Wrong with the Common Core 10. The high-stakes testing associated with CCSS threatens to turn schools into test-prep factories. 9. Data systems connected with CCSS are intrusive and violate family privacy rights. 8. The standards focus on quantifiable skills at the expense of important intellectual, emotional, and personal development. 7. The standards, as written, have no research base and have no predictive value regarding success in college or life. 6. No classroom teachers were involved in the development of the standards. 5. Adoption of the standards will require costly replacement of curriculum materials and purchase of expensive computer equipment. 4. Adoption of the standards requires the purchase of costly new tests. 3. The extensive testing associated with the standards requires dramatic reductions in instructional time. 2. The standards do not reflect the needs of the disadvantaged or disabled. And the number one thing wrong with the Common Core Standards is: The requirement that all children meet the same standards in age-based cohorts ignores decades of research on human cognitive development.
Posted on: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 00:46:09 +0000
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