The right-wing campaign to keep America stupid.
What you should know about the Common Core and why it is under attack E. D. Hirsch, an advocate of the Common Core whose Core Knowledge Foundation distributes a widely used curriculum, warned in an interview that if the standards were not carefully implemented, schools could still end up emphasizing "mindless test prep" over substance. 1- It is not federal. 2- there is no national curriculum. * The standards, OBJECTIVES FOR LEARNING...describe a reasonable progression of learning from grade to grade, but leave it to state and local school officials to get there. The Common Core is not an attempt to pack kids' heads with an officially sanctioned list of facts, but to assure that they are able to read a complicated text and understand it, to recognize a problem and know how to solve it. learn what the CC seeks to do FOR REAL. |