Common Core “Literature” Standards – workplace readiness, not life enrichment
April 21, 2013
One of the functions of education is to pass the history, culture, and values from one generation to the next. In this regard, the Common Core State Standards’ chopping off many of the classic samples of traditional literature will effectively insure that the next generation will NOT know America’s classic literature, nor the values it embodied.
Of course if you take the view that children are just “human resources” to prepare for the workplace, not individuals to enrich and empower with knowledge, then these “literature” standards make sense.
Read the analysis by Sandra Stotsky.
One of the functions of education is to pass the history, culture, and values from one generation to the next. In this regard, the Common Core State Standards’ chopping off many of the classic samples of traditional literature will effectively insure that the next generation will NOT know America’s classic literature, nor the values it embodied.
Of course if you take the view that children are just “human resources” to prepare for the workplace, not individuals to enrich and empower with knowledge, then these “literature” standards make sense.
Read the analysis by Sandra Stotsky.