Are the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) the solution to all our education ills? No, but they are the pet project of bureaucrats, data-analysts, employees at the Federal Department of Education, and the like.
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The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief School State Officers who are the proponents of the Common Core State Standards claim that the new standards will be an ideal solution for improving education in the U.S.A. But a leading education specialist calls the standards “pedagogically useless.”
See the reasons the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction wants to adopt the Common Core State Standards…. and the refutations of each reason below each statement.
“….But are the Common Core Standards really “revolutionary”? Or are they fundamentally the same as the sets of standards that currently exist in each of the 50 states, different only in their wording?….”
Change agents work to con the community. Charlotte Iserbyt served as Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Educational Research and Improvement (OERI), U.S. Department of Education, during the first Reagan Administration, where she first blew the whistle….
Common Core Standards of education for all the states is not the magic solution it claims to be.
The federal Race to the Top program includes a plan to hire and fire principals and teachers on the basis of the students’ assessment scores. This has already begun to cause problems…
“If we accomplish one thing in the coming years it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America,” stated Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Does this mean uniform mediocrity?
Not another federal education program! The schools will need to jump through more hoops, but will the student actually learn more?