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The big problem with common core is the reform package into which it is embedded. The standards themselves are in most cases as well thought out as other alter
by dzdt 11y ago
The big problem with common core is the reform package into which it is embedded. The standards themselves are in most cases as well thought out as other alternatives. Sure you can find details to argue about, but that is universal. The textbooks and workbooks have some rough edges because of newness. The real problem is the rest of the package: high stakes tests with no direct educational purpose taking weeks of class time, not to mention valuable tine now going to test prep. Privitazation of the testing, and increasingly of the schools themselves. Dimunuation and disenfranchisement of the teaching profession. The big picture is industrialisation of public education. This entails a loss of quality in favor of uniformity and cheapness.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> he big problem with common core is the reform package into which it is embedded. [...] The real problem is the rest of the package: high stakes tests with no direct educational purpose taking weeks of class time, not to mention valuable tine now going to test prep. Privitazation of the testing, and increasingly of the schools themselves. None of that has anything to do with Common Core, and, AFAICT, politically, the groups that most oppose Common Core are the groups that have most supported the policies that have done the most to produce the effects you complain about.