5 Reasons Why the Common Core Standards are not Good for Teaching and Learning
The Common Core State Standards have been adopted by 47 states, and school districts around the country are gearing up by spending millions of dollars on meager staff development training to indoctrinate teachers in the use of the Common Core Standards.
Standards represent the dogmatism of a particular group that actually writes and finally publishes the standards documents. A very small group of people in the education community are involved in this process. To assume that one set of standards in mathematics and English/language arts will be appropriate to every school, each community, and every student seems very undemocratic. The medical profession doesn’t even come close to agree what it means by “standard of care.”
But in education, we hire non-public and private school professionals, many of whom have never had any experience working with students or teachers in the K-12 environment, and this group writes the standards for the millions of professional teachers, none of whom are really involved in the process. Do you see a problem here?
The march to standardize and uniform the curriculum is a dangerous movement in a democratic society, and one that is so diverse in cultures, languages, and geography as America. How can we really think that one set of statements of mathematics and English/language art objectives written by non-practitioners can be truly be valid for all learners, all schools, and all teachers.
more . . . http://www.artofteachingscience.org/2012/05/01/5-reasons-why-the-common-core-standards-are-not-good-for-teaching-and-learning/
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