Schools Matter: The Common Core: Bad for Libraries, Librarians, and Students

Schools Matter: The Common Core: Bad for Libraries, Librarians, and Students:

The Common Core: Bad for Libraries, Librarians, and Students

by skrashen

The President of the American Library Association is enthusiastic about the common core for school libraries and school librarians. I am not. I posted this comment on: Education Week: Common Core Thrusts Librarians Into Leadership Role http://bit.ly/SpMDC4

In contrast to the view presented in “Common Core Thrusts School Librarians Into Leadership Roles” (Education Week, Sept 12, 2012), I argue here that there are no clear benefits from the common core standards for libraries and librarians, that the standards themselves are unnecessary and that the standards movement will bleed