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Common Core: Cranking out sausage

 

The creation of Common Core standards were not just “new” in the sense of having new standards as a final product, but new in how they were written, edited, etc. You can see from the critique from folks who have participated in the writing of past education standards like Sandra Stokoksy, and Diane Ravitch. First, the group writing the standards did not include the usual group of participants, and had one (yes “1″) teacher. No one from either academia or teaching in Early Childhood Education was included. We can see what those folks think of that. But beyond leaving out folks who are considered experts in the field, something else has happened. The standards for English Language Arts have listed two authors.  Other folks have written about how un-democratic the whole process was. What I want to show is how unprofessional this has all