Thanks for the article, indigo. I'm still trying to figure out exactly how Common Core is
supposed to help where No Child Left Behind didn't? It seems as if everyone is trying to reinvent the wheel of education when they really just need to go back to how it used to be done-small classes and customized education for each child. You know, the olden days of the one-room school house approach.
Another article from the Washington Post:
A New Bill Could Mark the End of the Common Core Quoting: "Andrew Rotherham, one of the founders of the education consultancy Bellwether Education Partners, warned that Alexander's bill would abandon the goals of the Common Core -- an agreement among states about the goals of public education, and an honest accounting about whether all children are getting an equal opportunity to achieve them.
"This is basically a way to make sure we don't have a common definition," Rotherham said. "Some kids are going to get a really challenging and ambitious set of standards, and other kids are going to fall through the cracks."
End QuoteI think his comment about some kids getting challenging and ambitious standards and others falling through the cracks is happening, but Common Core (as I understand it) won't fix that for students who struggle or for those who do (would) excel. IMHO, America needs to customize to each child's needs, not create a "one size fits all" standard, as I see his "common definition" comment to
really mean to the teachers who want to do more than teach to a test.
Rotherham's comment just makes me think
once again kids are being used to further an agenda, this time by big-business. It's about the money, not the kids. If it were about the kids, they would individualize, not standardize.
(Not being overly educated myself, 2 cents deposited).
