The Innovative Educator: This is how Democracy Ends Part II: Dispelling 6 Common Myths of the #CCSS

The Innovative Educator: This is how Democracy Ends Part II: Dispelling 6 Common Myths of the #CCSS:

This is how Democracy Ends Part II: Dispelling 6 Common Myths of the #CCSS

by noreply@blogger.com (Lisa Nielsen)

By Kris Nielsen.  Originally posted at Middle Grades Mastery. 
This is the second installment in the This is How Democracy Ends series. Part one is here.  This is How Democracy Ends–Part II –Reality Check–will give an abbreviated version of why the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI) is worse than we think and why it has been pushed so hard on states, districts, and schools.  Hopefully, Part Three will be my ideas for action, and my proposal for an alternative to the current reform movement, based on a humble teacher’s perspective.

Let’s look for a moment at a majority (yet shrinking) consensus among professional educators and the perspective that the public has accepted has been fed regarding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

This is part of a comment left by a professional educator on the first article in this series:

 I have a hard time believing that the whole thing is a ploy to destroy education and teachers. I doubt that our country would maliciously and hurt our children.

I post this comment because it’s a good start to a list of things that teachers and parents have been told to