Tuesday, July 9, 2013

UPDATE: They're mad and they're bad. America's teachers raise the volume and the roof +It may be money, not politics, that undermines Common Core.... | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com

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Get Schooled: They're mad and they're bad. America's teachers raise the volume and the roof
One of the teachers who asked a question at last week’s meeting of the National Education Association in Atlanta identified herself as a member of the "Badass Teachers Association," for which she earned some laughter and some applause. I thought she was joking. I was wrong. I went back to ...
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It may be money, not politics, that undermines Common Core. New tests are too expensive. 

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By Maureen Downey
Most of the debate of late in Georgia on the Common Core State Standards has focused on the politics. Now, the discussion is turning to money, which likely will be more pivotal in determining whether states fully embrace Common Core and whether the voluntary national academic standards deliver on their pledge to finally create a basis with which to compare student performance across states.
Pivotal to that comparison was the plan that students would take the same annual tests, thus enabling Georgia parents to see how their kids scored compared to peers in New Jersey and California. Now, there's no way to make such a comparison as Georgia administers its own homegrown CRCT to students in elementary and middle and its own End of Course Tests to high schoolers.
Parents have no national performance comparison until their children take the ACT or the SAT in their junior and senior years 
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