[Ohiogift] New Clothes

[Will Fitzhugh]

Jay Mathews has written a column
explaining: "Why Common Core Standards will fail."

The CC avoids content (knowledge) for students,
and they always said they were "Not a curriculum."

Nevertheless, people keep talking as though CC
specified "what students need to know"—which
it never intended to do.

It has always been about process/skills rather
than knowledge.

Glad to see that is gradually becoming understood...


Lisa Hansel, of the Core Knowledge blog, wrote

on June 6th, 2013....

“I think all of us should be willing to plow through the hard work 

of agreeing to certain content for each grade...” 

(but this the Concord Core folks decided not to attempt....)


For those who may not have read it for a while,
in "The Emperor's New Clothes," after the small
boy cries out that the Emperor is naked, the
procession continues, with the favored courtiers
"holding up" the invisible train of his "wonderful"
raiment...

So, even after the Common Core is seen to be naked,
we may expect Mr. Coleman and his followers
to continue the procession for as long as they can.


Will Fitzhugh


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