Common Core — The Rorschach test of education policy
One of the things that is really annoying about any of the examples of Common Core, is that most of the folks saying they either hate them, or love them are NOT teaching at the elementary level. It’s usually some secondary teacher (English or my old major, History) noting that doing things like “pre-reading” and questioning strategies were just making their kids lazy (see here for haters and lovers).
Folks are also saying amusing things like, “these are just standards” at a time when the ELA standards co-author is releasing some exemplars, that are traveling well beyond “standards” territory, and clearly into the land of instructional delivery. Maybe I’m just paranoid, but I’m sensing that even though a lot effort is being spent on figuring out exactly what instruction with these standards should look like, someone (David Coleman for one) has