On common Core

[nadinbrzezinski]

47. I will try one last time

I will use my state.

Point to the actual curriculum and printed books in the Cal DOE page

http://www.cde.ca.gov/re/cc/

What you have there are standards. And this is what it means.

What are academic content standards?
Standards-based education guides the content that students should master in each grade and shapes curriculum development at every grade level. Teachers and local school officials, in collaboration with families and community partners, use these standards to help students achieve academic success. Although the standards are intended to provide objectives for students and teachers, decisions about classroom instruction are generally made at the local level by the teacher, local administrator, and/or the locally-elected school board.

California’s standards have been hailed for their rigor, setting high expectations for all students. Starting in 1997, California has adopted content standards in English language arts (ELA), mathematics, history–social science, science, visual and performing arts, health, world language, physical education, school library standards, and career technical education. California also has standards in English language development (ELD), which outline the stages of English proficiency English learners progress through as they become proficient in the English language. All of the content standards are posted in PDF and Word format on the CDE Content Standards Web page.
All of California’s content standards provide detailed expectations for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. The ultimate goal of the education system in California is to ensure that all students have access to high-quality curriculum and instruction so they may meet or exceed the knowledge and skills outlined in the State’s academic content standards.

The state is not developing the books. The State, which you refuse to understand, is not developing the books. We are not in Mexico where the Federal government develops and prints the books in newsprint every year and gives them out for free for primary school, ergo they are in curriculum and materials development.

Each school district in California develops the books, handouts materials, buys them from a book printer in California or Texas (the two big printing houses are in those two states) it is this way across the nation. Your books and how to carry them out were chosen, ultimately, by your very local school board.


What did it change in California? Mostly nothing, the what little Johnny should learn in third grade did not fundamentally change from only state standards, The only thing that change is access to federal funds though the least performing districts are not very happy.

And some school boards are giving teachers a lot of freedom in how they teach and develop material and funding the necessary continuing education. others, most of them actually, are not. This has not changed and has Butkus to do with common core standards and all to do with local control.

You must live in one of the states that had much lower standards though. Most of the serious complains are coming from them, or the other end of the spectrum. For the record, Massachusetts was happy to learn that those were minimum standards to reach. Schools for the gifted are still way ahead of the rest of the country. Their achievement is average for world wide standards. Think about that for a second. Our gifted students test just average. Why are we setting such low goals?

And with that where us my wall? I really need it.