Cindy Lutenbacher is a teacher and DeKalb County public school parent. She is also an ardent critic of Common Core State Standards.
In this essay, she explains why:
By Cindy Lutenbacher
Common Core … robust … rigorous academic standards … global economy … 21st century workplace … competitive … college-ready … Duplicitous buzzwords ad nauseum, we’ve heard them ten thousand times in the barrage of press releases about Common Core. And every one is bogus.
The ideals of “rigorous standards” make good sound bites, but they come with almost pathological standardized testing demands, curricular overhaul, and the use of these standardized tests to rate teachers. These pedagogical partners in crime are not written into the Common Core, but they are part of the requirements that states must follow in order to receive the bait of federal dollars. Each appendage of Common Core is somewhere between deeply problematic and disastrous.
