Ten Colossal Common Core Errors

11/26/2013

Ten Colossal Common Core Errors

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model.
Buckminster Fuller

Anthony Cody in his Education Week article, "Common Core Standards: Ten Colossal Errors," shares these concerns:

1.	The process by which the Common Core standards were developed and adopted was undemocratic.
2.	The Common Core State Standards violate what we know about how children develop and grow.
3.	The Common Core is inspired by a vision of market-driven innovation enabled by standardization of curriculum, tests, and ultimately, our children themselves.
4.	The Common Core creates a rigid set of performance expectations for every grade level, and results in tightly controlled instructional timelines and curriculum.
5.	The Common Core was designed to be implemented through an expanding regime of high-stakes tests, which will consume an unhealthy amount of time and money.
6.	Proficiency rates on the new Common Core tests have been dramatically lower — by design.
7.	Common Core relies on a narrow conception of the purpose of K-12 education as "career and college readiness."
8.	The Common Core is associated with an attempt to collect more student and teacher data than ever before.
9.	The Common Core is not based on any external evidence, has no research to support it, has never been tested, and worst of all, has no mechanism for correction.
10.	The biggest problem of American education and American society is the growing number of children living in poverty.... The Common Core does nothing to address this problem.

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