More Common Core Cheerleading
The key to popular writing about the Common Core State (?) Standards is never, ever to support your arguments with examples of specific standards, as in this piece. I was going to make this comment over at Edutopia but you have to go through such a rigmarole to post a comment there.
For example, this is a straw man.
For example, this is a straw man.
The CC standards are organized in an intoxicatingly simple, linear fashion that acknowledges that the work of a first grade teacher contributes to the growth of a tenth grade student. This connectedness between grade levels is a welcome departure from some previous state standards that jumped from topic to topic, addressing a particular skill one year, dropping it the next, and returning to it later on or not at all.Granted, I've only deal with specific standards in Illinois, Arizona, and Ohio, but I can tell you that the pre-existing