Hillsboro School District: 3 more storylines from Common Core's rollout
Yesterday, I posted a story about College Preparatory Mathematics, or CPM, the math curriculum the Hillsboro School Districtadopted this year to align itself with the new Common Core State Standards. If you missed it,click here.
While reporting the story, I learned some other things about Common Core’s rollout in Hillsboro, particularly at an Oct. 16 information session that the district put on for parents, and during a Nov. 4 visit to the district’s largest elementary school,Witch Hazel.
There have been many arguments both supporting and against Common Core made across the nation and here in Oregon. I won’t get into those here. If you’re interested, here is a list of “frequently asked questions” at the Common Core’s official website, here are some arguments against the standards at a parent-led Oregon group’s website, and here is a PolitiFact post that rates the truth value of the attacks on the standards (it focuses on Florida, but much of the analysis would also apply to Oregon).
And here are three things that didn’t make it into yesterday’s story:
In language-arts, an increased emphasis on language’s function
In Witch Hazel English classes, Common Core drills students on how and when to use