Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Literature Standards Provide Less Common Understanding

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Literature Standards Provide Less Common Understanding:

Common Core Literature Standards Provide Less Common Understanding

by Anngie

You would think that with the word "common" in its title, Common Core standards would be concerned with providing students across the country education on common (meaning -shared) resources. But a look at the Common Core Standards for language arts reveals that they actually move students away from classic literature that has been studied for generations and provides commonality to our experience, if not our lexicon, and towards informational texts in things like science and politics. I suppose you could make a case that "Of Mice And Men" is antiquated, but if you drop reading this, what will this mean to our shared understanding as a culture?

American Principles in Action South Carolina Director Joe Mack and South Carolina State Education Board