[Ohiogift] They Will be Testing Methods/Skills Only

[Will Fitzhugh]

[No one much seems to remark on the effect the absence of
agreed content will have on the ability of the National Testing
Consortia to find out if students have any knowledge or not,
especially in history and literature....]


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Comment on the Core Knowledge Blog:


Peter Meyer writes today for Education Next that “there is no Common Core curriculum,”


Then he says—but it [CC] has “agreed-upon expectations for what children should know in certain subjects.”


“What children should know in certain subjects” IS a curriculum—and may be found only in a curriculum and this [a curriculum] is clearly something which the Common Core most certainly does NOT have.


As a result, the National Testing Consortia cannot test students on what they should know in certain subjects, because the Common Core says nothing about what knowledge all students should have [especially in history and literature].


All that remains for the Testing Consortia to concern themselves with are: “Methods of Thinking,” “Deeper Thinking Skills,” and other analytical process nonsense.


Someone is confused here, and perhaps doesn’t understand the meaning of words used.


Will Fitzhugh

fitzhugh at tcr.org

Comment by Will Fitzhugh — June 17, 2013 @ 12:28 pm



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