Huff Po Blog: The CC Nightmare that Awaits Us

In a blog entry on the Huffington Post by English teacher Randy Turner, he explains:

“Common Core Standards are here to stay, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and school administrators have been telling us, but what they have not been telling us is that these nationwide standards are opening the door to more and more standardized testing.

And with standardized testing comes companies that make profits not only with tests, but with materials to prepare for those tests, and with ready-made curriculum based on those tests, just like we saw with all of the school districts in Missouri, including Joplin, that fell hook, line, and sinker for McGraw-Hill’s Acuity tests, which were allegedly designed to prepare students for the Missouri standardized tests, which were also made by McGraw-Hill.

It never worked in Joplin, where test scores have decreased ever since administrators bought the Acuity package.

Common Core Standards will be the same thing on steroids.

If students are going to be tested three times a year, then gullible school districts will be shelling out hundreds of thousands for test preparation materials, and before you know it, there will be no time to do anything but teach to the test.

Pearson, one of the companies that has been involved in the creation of Common Core Standards, has been selected by Missouri to create the tests. Pearson, not so coincidentally, is hawking a series of materials to help schools prepare for those tests, out of the goodness of their hearts, I am sure.”

Read the rest here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randy-turner/the-common-core-nightmare_b_3521825.html

 

One thought on “Huff Po Blog: The CC Nightmare that Awaits Us”

  1. Common Core is a cast system designed to manage children into set quotas and standards, once labelled a child’s future is set, amen to the right to pursue happiness which is to choose one’s path. This is fundamentally un-American.

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