A Teacher Says “NO!” to Common Core Standards
I question the motivations of David Coleman, “architect” and lead author of the Common Core, whose video was shown to ICs last year giving a lesson on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s, “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”…
This past summer, I viewed an entire two-hour tape of Colemen giving a speech to New York state educators about CCSS. Besides how condescending he was about teachers and students, what sticks out for me in his lecture was when he was talking about the shift of the CCSS from writing/reading about self, to writing/reading non-fiction complex texts. Coleman told his audience,“People don’t really give a shit about what you (students) feel and what you (students) think.” Here is a link to that video.
This letter was originally posted on Susan Ohanian.org. It was such a powerful piece that I requested permission