California is like the rest of the country…only sooner
A few weeks ago, a post about an exemplar lesson from Common Core led to my writing a series of posts on the standards. This led to a whole series of posts about how the exemplars suck, with the only variation being on whether this was endemic to the standards, or that it was just a poor example–but the standards themselves are still A-OK. Tom Hoffman at Tuttle-SVC blog has the play-by-play, and still remains an outstanding source for Common Core hilarity. He has a nice statement at the end:
I wouldn’t go that far, but yes, the example sucks, and Common Core advocates are going to have to consider whether David Coleman is doing their movement more harm than good, and if defending his slipshod work is worth their time.
The question at the end of the day is can these standards work? One of the things that has been noted about the standards is that they are about skills, and not content. The problem is that they purport to be standards for “English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects” so they are covering subject matter