UPDATE: New York Principal Speaks Out on Ridiculous Common Core Test for 1st Graders | Truth in American Education

New York Principal Speaks Out on Ridiculous Common Core Test for 1st Graders | Truth in American Education:

Southeast TESOL Association Bans Anti-Common Core Speech

Filed in Common Core State Standards by Shane Vander Hart on November 1, 2013 • 2 Comments

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Dr. Stephen Krashen is professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, a linguist, and an educational researcher.  Dr. Krashen has published more than 350 papers and books, contributing to the fields of second language acquisition, bilingual education, and reading.  He was scheduled to speak a the Southeast TESOL Association Meeting to be held next week in Myrtle Beach, SC.

He announced yesterday on his blog that he will not be speaking there after all:

I will not be speaking at the Southeast TESOL Association Meeting to be held in Myrtle Beach next week, because of a disagreement about my keynote topic. I learned only recently that the conference theme was supporting the common core, that it was "dedicated entirely to providing teachers with strategies for working with common core and all of the states in attendance have adopted it."

I therefore changed my topic to "The case against the common core." This was rejected by 

New York Principal Speaks Out on Ridiculous Common Core Test for 1st Graders

Filed in Common Core Assessments, Education at State Level by Shane Vander Hart on November 1, 2013 •1 Comment

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Below is an excerpt from a guest blog written by Carol Burris, Principal at South Side High School in New York.  She was named the 2013 High School Principal of the Year by the School Administrators Association of New York and the National Association of Secondary School Principals.  In 2010 she was named the New York State Outstanding Education by School Administrators Association of New York.

In a nutshell she knows her stuff.  Valerie Strausspublished her blog post at The Answer Sheet which is Strauss’ education blog at The Washington Post.  Burris writes about a recent Common Core aligned test given to first graders in New York.

My speech teacher came to see me.  She was both angry and distraught.  In her hand was her 6-year-old’s math test.  On the top of it was written, “Topic 2, 45%”. On the bottom, were the words, “Copyright @ Pearson Education.”   After I got over my horror that a first-grader would take a multiple-choice test with a percent-based grade, I started to look at the