The Common Core; "should be tossed--folded, stapled, mutilated, burned. They are based on lies about "college readiness," and they are based on lies about "careers." They are based on lies about being "state led." They are based on lies about "international benchmarking." They are based on phony baloney ideas about "text complexity," and a one-size-fits-all notion of grade-to-grade "learning progressions" and on-time "mastery" right out of a factory model of education--no child left behind on the assembly line.
These standards are the production of Bill Gates, Inc"., aided by for-hire workers and federal appointees in USDE who are so dumb they think standards do not have implications for curriculum. The process of generating the 1,620 standards (including parts a-e) was so uncoordinated that nobody seems to have noticed that the only topic in math taught at every grade is geometry"... |