Yes! As previously shared, the official CCSS website, corestandards.org, links to many other common core resources including but not limited to:
- achievethecore.org
- commoncoreworks.org
- Science standards being developed (
http://www.nextgenscience.org/)
- World Language standards being developed (
http://www.actfl.org/sites/default/files/pdfs/Aligning_CCSS_Language_Standards_v6.pdf)
Web pages may be subject to frequent update, and related web pages may not always agree with each other. Inconsistencies and discrepancies may also provide insight or knowledge.
U.S. Department of Education Links related to common core include:
- "Race to the Top Program Executive Summary", dated November 2009, and available online at
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/racetothetop/executive-summary.pdf.) The document mentions that standards are not stand-alone when it states,
"... developing a rollout plan for the standards together with all of their supporting components;" (emphasis added). Interested parents may read the document for information on "all of their supporting components".
- factsheet on "Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems", dated July 2009, and available online at
http://www2.ed.gov/programs/slds/factsheet.html, may also be of interest.
These are not documents created by opponents to common core, rather these are documents created by common core proponents. While some may see the statements in these documents as positives and others may see them as moving in a direction opposite to the best interests of our students, few may question whether these sources are "biased" against common core.
