The facts about the Common Core Standards
The State of Washington signed on to administer the Common Core Standards in our schools. That means that there will be new textbooks, lesson plans, worksheets with correlating homework and tests to make sure that our students are all on the same page at the same time no matter the location of the district or your child’s abilities or the level of each class academically.
Charter schools, option schools or public schools, each student is to know the same material at the same time at the same age. Is that how actual children grow and develop? No matter. It wasn’t educators who designed the curriculum, it was a few people who decided it would be a good idea to develop (market) ”standards” even if in comparison the standards were lower than the state’s orignal standards. So much for thinking ”outside the box” as many “innovative” charter entrepreneurs claim their schools will be. They’ll be stuck with the Common Core Standards also as well as the tests.
Diane Ravitch sums it up best in a speech she gave this month to the Modern Language Association:
Everything you need to know about the Common Core
As an organization of teachers and scholars devoted to the study of language and