Comments on: More on the Core

By: Jean

Jean — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 18:22:09 +0000

From RI: and in total and complete agreement with Anne Marie. You cannot believe the groundswell of opposition to these CC "state" standards. Your article is clearly biased in favor. I hate to break it to you but parents, teachers, admins, school boards, legislators (local, statewide and nationally) are beginning to wake up to this nightmare. The testing and assessment costs alone will bankrupt districts but alas this is part of the grand scheme by design...bc the implementers of CCSS are hoping to dissolve 16,000 national school districts into just 70. (If you want proof I can dig up the very quote). So here we have the new standards of the month which are completely corporate and federally led, with states signing on SIGHT UNSEEN (I kid you not). RI was one of the test cases, but they certainly underestimated the grassroots opposition to this. Mess with parents that's one thing, mess with the future of their children and that's quite another...honestly, don't bank on this!

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 20:04:37 +0000

And what of CCSS for science? My understanding is that there is no consensus among the science community on standards, therefore it is going by the wayside.

By: Ann Marie Banfield

Ann Marie Banfield — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 02:22:43 +0000

It would help to also note that Common Core has come with a great deal of controversy. Three areas of issues people have with Common Core are:
The Cost (NH has yet to estimate what this will cost the state)
The data mining of personal info on students and...
The poor quality of the Math/English Standards :
http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/82725929/669257732/name/Stostky_-_Reasons_for_not_signing_off_on_Common_Core%26%2339%3Bs_final_sta

http://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/82725929/313520086/name/Milgram%26%2339%3Bs_Full_Letter_-_comments-final-draft-short-versiont%2Epd