Even as the Néw York Board of Regents made minor tweaks to the Common Core standards and testing, a poll by News 12, Long Island’s only TV news station, showed simmering anti – Common Core sentiment in this crucial suburban area.
8% say Delay It
86% say Eliminate It
6% say Leave It Alone
Long Island has been a hotbed of anti-Common Core activism.
A special committee of the Regents reviewed the botched implementation.
The committee proposed asking the original writers of the standards to review them, instead of assembling Néw York’s best teachers to do a review.
Very odd recommendation. The National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and Student Achievement Partners wrote the standards. Why would the Refents expect these inside-the-beltway, Gates-funded groups to know how to fix them?
Why not trust the state’s practitioners who know the students and know how to improve the standards?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Hurray for Long Island.
Hope others emulate it.
Long Island is a hotbed of protest against Common Core. This documentary that made its LI debut is rallying parents, students, and education advocates like Carol Burris and Mark Naison. http://www.longislandpress.com/2014/02/09/new-documentary-takes-standardized-testing-common-core-battle-to-big-screen/
Jaime,
That article you wrote in LI Press is terrific.
Here’s the trialer. Diane appears around 3:25 with my homemade protest signs from last April’s occupy USDOE event.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=taCF9IF_0Tc&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DtaCF9IF_0Tc
Typo: trailer
Money.
“The committee proposed asking the original writers of the standards to review them, instead of assembling Néw York’s best teachers to do a review.”
Any details or a link to this?
Regents work group report:
Click to access 214p12hea3.pdf
thanks!
Dear Ms. Ravitch,
I have a son with autism in the 9th grade. We live in Springfield, MO. I want to know which will trump, Standard Based IEPs or IDEA? Do you have any thoughts? Also, I discovered with my sons READ180 class at school, both the old and the new version. There is a camera and a microphone that will go on, if you chose Allow. I will not allow my son to use computers at school because of the feel of data collection. I do not know who is seeing my son with the camera, but the New Generation READ180 is completely aligned with Common Core. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholastic_READ_180 READ 180 is a reading intervention program in wide use by students in Grades 412 who read at least two years below grade level. It was created by Scholastic Corporation. In 2011, Scholastic released its newest version, READ 180 Next Generation, which has been fully aligned to meet the demands of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[1]
Thank you,
Cynthia Mulhall
“A society that puts equality-in the sense that equality of outcome ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom
for it will end up in the hands of people who use it to promote their own interest”.-Milton Friedman
It is so ironic that the “edu-reformers” have strategically targeted and maligned public school teachers when it is these oppressed teachers who are clearly the only stakeholders with the authentic student knowledge and classroom teaching experience necessary to improve the Common Core Standards, thus salvaging them to some degree. So tell me, who’s acting as if they are from the “bottom of the barrel”?
I have had the pleasure of working with many of thee gallant Long Island parents, teachers, and administrators who have pushed and pushed and will continue to push even as the NYS Regents begins to use delaying tactics to knock us off course. (http://dcgmentor.tumblr.com/post/76240788872/nys-regents-backs-off ) .
And as for the non use of teachers to fix this thing… are we surprised? NO!. We have been demanding that for years and will continue to. Once again I volunteer!
Why not let teachers write it in the first place? Let alone fix it. Because teachers are stupid idiots who don’t know anything and we can’t possible give them credit for this marvelous brain child of ours. Of course when it fails miserably in implementation who do you think will have to take the blame, teachers of course.
They already are….listen carefully to their words. Here in CT we hear the word fidelity daily from Pryor, the lawyer with not prior teaching experience.
I have heard King say poor implementation. It’s never them or their crappy, incompetent leadership. All roads lead back to the stupid, lazy, unionized teachers.
There will be a special place for all of them someday.
The 4 year graduation rate is 91% on Long Island. We know what we are doing here. Instead of throwing unfunded reform schemes at us, the nation should be asking us what works.
Cuomo just became a 1 term wonder
rratto
Do you think that there is a realistic chance he will lose?
Seems impossible with his 65% approval rating.
I am committed to do whatever it takes. I will work my butt off getting votes for whoever challenges him.
This is beyond depressing.
Cuomo owns this mess: CUOMOCORE
At what point does “Cut Taxes” become as a false choice for our society.
The point was circa 1980 when RR famously declared that “government is not the solution, it is the problem.”
Followed by his philosophy of trickle-down economics which disavowed the lucky and affluent from any social responsibility.
I blame it all on Ronnie Ray-gun
Even if the NGA were the appropriate agency to make changes, the children need relief NOW, not eventually.
If we have to have standards – return to the former NYS Standards. They were much better than what we have now.
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