The NYC Parent Blog on the Common Core Standards

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1. Mem says:

   December 5, 2012 at 7:05 pm

   I am concerned about propaganda disguised as non-fiction. Who has control over the content of the non-fictional passages in the new CCSS testing? I experienced a professional development session as a teacher to find a “fact-based” passage to be very biased. CCSS testing responses will also be computerized. So how our children think and respond will be collected nationally. One central entity in charge of creating, monitoring, and tracking what our children learn and think should terrify any true American.

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2. Duane Swacker says:

   December 5, 2012 at 7:08 pm

   Leonie,

   Excellent thoughts! Thanks!

   “Now, Coleman says all this discussion of these quotas are a distraction and we haven’t yet got to debating the really difficult aspects of the Common Core, and he may be right.”

   Of course they’re a distraction. They take away from the implementation of the CC. What a shame!

   You gotta hate it when non-educators attempt to tell the true professionals what to do!!

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3. Lehrer says:

   December 5, 2012 at 7:57 pm

   “David Coleman, who never taught a day in his life, yet was given the power to make these irrational and arbitrary prescriptions for the nation’s schoolchildren. Who appointed him Czar: Bill Gates?”

   EXACTLY!!!!!!

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