Peter Greene writes here about the decision by the New York Council of Dchool Diperintendents to invite David Coleman to address its annual conference.
http://curmudgucation.blogspot.com/2018/01/ny-super-slap-in-face.html
Coleman, as you know, was the architect of the Common Core and is now CEO of the College Board, which administers the SAT. The SAT has been aligned with the Common Core.
Nothing in education has been as controversial as the CC. it has come under fire from left and right. During the recent presidential election, candidate Trump called it a disaster and promised to get rid of it. Betsy DeVos, a close associate of Jeb Bush, who championed the Common Core, never mentions it. Bush candidly admitted that he loved the CC because it would show how terrible the nation’s public schools are and precipitate a parent stampede to charters and vouchers.
Arne Duncan so loved the CC that he spent $360 million creating two testing consortia—PARCC and Dmarter Balanced Asessment—that enlisted almost every state but have rapidly lost state members and are now on like support.
Will David Coleman explain how the Common Core became toxic?
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Well, it’s important to learn from failure.
And we all know on a whole new level how critically important a child’s wellbeing is when faced with testing and test prep. Also, we have been almost forced to contemplate how deep learning should be, how engaging and connected it should be and what developmental plateaus are passed over time rather than sheer persistence.
Or maybe it’s just the blind leading the blind into the next generation of blindness.
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And Trump will give the keynote address to the Organization of African Unity.
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Good one, Fred.
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The OAU has ethics and standards. It appears that the New York Superintendents do not.
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To quote Peter Greene: “Is there any business, any industry, any large-scale endeavor in this country, that gives less respect to its frontline workers than education?”
What could be worse? How about a double bill with John B. King adding his “wisdom” to the garbage pile of bad ideas. King and Coleman…a tag team dud-o-rama.
Superintendents ought to support their school faculty and students and REFUSE to go.
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One small point, the CC$$ is not an actual set of standards, for more on that go to ANSI’s website and see how an actual set of standards is brought into being. (spoiler: an open, democratic and later on appealable process of, by, and for the legitimate stakeholders ONLY) The CC$$ fails that test on all points and contains two things a true set of standards has no need of. First, it is copyrighted, and second, it has an indemnity clause that one accepts as a condition of use. Those are the hallmarks of a product, not a set of standards, and this is where we can see that the CC$$ is really nothing more than a product meant to leverage the production and sale of other products, a goal that is irrelevant to a true set of standards.
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Quite correct on the lack of following any legitimate procedure to make those CCSS.
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You are correct.Procedures matter and the procedures at the ANSI’s website illustrate why the CCSS should not be regarded as standards, they are closer to being fiats.
Peter has the superior idea:
Imagine a world where a superintendent’s conference works like this– the parent organization says, “Every one of you supers bring one teacher from your district who really does a great job, and then we will all sit and listen to them and learn what we can do better.”
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A set of standards not only has no need of copyright, but copyright is actually inimical to the standard because it prevents it from being modified by anyone but the copyright holder.
But we all know why Common Core was copyrighted and why those who adopted it had to agree to use it as is without changes: so that companies like Pearson could produce and maintain single versions of texts, curriculum software and tests for thousands of schools and thereby minimize development and maintenance costs and maximize profits.
Apart from that, no legitimate standard (except a standard for clowns) would — or even could — ever be established by the likes of David Coleman and Jason Zimba.
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Loving the inadvertent characterization of the group that made Coleman keynote speaker: “the New York Council of Dchool Diperintendents”.
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Love it: “Diperintendents.”
Other words: DumberIntendents, Dunderintendents, STUPIDintendents.
Thanks for the fun, bethree5.
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The superadminimal has to have all the qualities (sic) of a regular adminimal and then some political ones as mentioned by Jon.
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Dupesterintentents. Coleman: “Hey, come to our billionaire controlled conference, relax in a posh hotel, dine exquisitely, be lulled into complacency and let us pull the wool over your eyes while we use you to Destroy Public Education starting with your school district, dupes! Yer the dupes! The dupesters! The DuPEsterintendents!”
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I remember having a conversation with my district dupesterintentent (Harrison, NY) during the H.S. open house. I asked him why there was such a lack of diversity among the teaching staff. His response was basically “we have a hiring committee who search for the best candidates, blah, blah, blah” When I asked him if any minorities were on the hiring committee, he hemmed and hawed until he was forced to respond in the negative. For the most part, from what I’ve seen, dupesterintentent’s are highly polished political bureaucrats. By the way, this dupesterintentent was Dupesterintentent of the Year a few years back. Go figure.
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“Will David Coleman explain how the Common Core became toxic?”
I think not. Instead, Coleman will blame the failure of Common Core on the resistance and continue to claim it would work of given another decade or more.
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Like arsenic, Common Core did not become toxic.
It was toxic from day one.
Come to think of it, that’s not the only thing arsenic and Common Core have in common.
Both have (an) “arse” as a root.
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