Re: looking for critiques of common core standards

[Art Burke <aburke5054@aol.com>]

I know it's asking a lot for a teachers union president to know this, but the Common Core standards were developed with substantial input from, wait for it, the NEA...  

http://www.nea.org/home/46653.htm

 
Art

 

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Subject: [arn-l] looking for critiques of common core standards


Bob Peterson posted this to the RS list:

Dear friends,
I am looking for progressive critiques of the Common Core State 
Standards. I looking for any of the following:

a) critiques of the content of common core standards
b) critiques of the way these standards were developed - by whom and 
financed by whom?
c) the role of corporations, testing companies, multinational publishing 
companies in defining how teachers will now be expected/forced? to 
"teach" to the standards - through development of on-line lessons, 
assessments, etc.
d) responses by community, parents and educators to fight for engaging, 
multicultural, student centered, rigorous curriculum in their schools.


Thanks in advance.

Bob Peterson


MTEA President
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