Teachers and CCSS: To Implement or To Resist?
At the Teaching Now blog (Education Week), a recent debate among Larry Ferlazzo, Stephen Krashen, David Cohen, and Paul Thomas has prompted the post:
"Should Teachers Resist the Common Core?"
Larry Ferlazzo (@Larryferlazzo)
"Should Teachers Resist the Common Core?"
In a series of blog posts as well as comments on those posts, Ferlazzo and Cohen have offered skepticism about CCSS, but maintain implementation of CCSS and the high-stakes tests to follow are inevitable, and thus the realistic and practical response from teachers must be how to implement CCSS well.
Krashen and Thomas will not concede implementation of CCSS is inevitable, and have called for resistance.
Since this is a powerful debate at the core of the education reform movement and since this debate is among credible practitioners and scholars, I am listing the relevant blog posts in one spot for Schools Matter readers; please be sure to read the comments in these posts as well.