Is there more to literary analysis than what the common core represents?
A book which may be of interest is
The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum: What Secondary English Teachers Can Do, by
Sandra Stotsky, one of the former committee members who
did not sign off on common core.
Do English teachers like common core?
Sandra Stotsky has co-authored a
paper on
How Common Core's ELA Standards Place College Readiness At Risk. As an educator, Sandra Stotsky has shared the following major flaws in Common Core's ELA standards:
A. Most of Common Core's reading standards are content-free skills.
B. Common Core's ELA standards stress writing more than reading at every grade level.
C. Common Core's writing standards are developmentally inappropriate at many grade levels and lack coordination with its reading standards.
D. Common Core expects English teachers to spend at least half of their reading instructional time at every grade level on informational texts.
E. Common Core reduces opportunities for students to develop critical thinking.
F. Common Core's standards are not "fewer, clearer, and deeper;" they often bundle several objectives into one statement and call it one standard.
Common Core Facts and Myths are discussed at a downloadable paper
here.
