Common Core: Growing Pains or Growing Awareness?
Media reports have focused on a recent survey indicating a sharp decline in support for the Common Core among teachers. These reports have also included a variety of explanations and theories as to why this decline has occurred.
Unfortunately many of the quotes and much of the speculation comes from Common Core cheer leaders who have limited teaching experience and do not have regular contact with students or teachers so they lack the wisdom that is derived from classroom experience and evidence to support their claims.
From my perspective, teachers no longer have confidence in the ability of the unqualified and inexperienced architects of the Common Core to develop national learning standards that are RESPONSIVE, to the academic, social, and emotional needs of diverse learners.
Simply put, teachers have lost their patience and grown tired of the litany of disingenuous, contradictory, self-serving and evidence-less claims.
Here is a partial list of problems and teacher concerns regarding the Common Core State Standards…
#1 Teaching To The Test
No better example of conflicting and contradictory statements than the issue of teaching to the test. Back in 2012, President Obama said,
“But what is still a challenge, and I think teachers have a legitimate gripe here, is making sure that the assessments are done properly, that it’s not just based on standardized Common Core: Growing Pains or Growing Awareness? | WagTheDog: