Originally Posted by indigo
Originally Posted by Dude
Interested parents may do well to stop relying on ill-informed meta-analyses and go directly to the source.

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/

http://www.corestandards.org/other-resources/key-shifts-in-english-language-arts/

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.

It may be instructive to note that the 2009 documents mentioned above were published *before* the common core standards were developed (that process was started in 2009 and the standards were published in 2010), and thus while they may comment on the *idea* of the standards, they are not really relevant to the content of the standards as they exist now. I would agree with Dude that the core standards web site itself (i.e., the links he provided) is a good place to start if you want to learn about the standards.

Last edited by amylou; 04/17/14 08:02 AM.