The National Idiocy
When I get into a conversation about the Common Core, I try to ask the person I'm talking to to identify a particular standard in the CCS that he or she finds superior to its counterpart in the current Illinois Learning Standards. Nobody can ever name anything. Nobody has any idea what this is about, I find.
Try it sometime. You get this stare and a stuttered statement about them just being more rigorous or whatever. It's all magical thinking. Like this new set of standards is going to level the huge diversity in student backgrounds, interests, aptitudes, and habits that teachers confront under the current set of standards. That
Try it sometime. You get this stare and a stuttered statement about them just being more rigorous or whatever. It's all magical thinking. Like this new set of standards is going to level the huge diversity in student backgrounds, interests, aptitudes, and habits that teachers confront under the current set of standards. That