[Ohiogift] A good argument against the CC needs to start with the truth. Re: very cool video

[Eric Price]

Thank you, Margaret, for calling out this (nicely produced) propaganda piece. Before Common Core, this is the sort of propaganda (glittering generalities, bandwagon) high school students were expected to recognize. Common core appears to promote the skills needed to spot propaganda, without specifying that specific goal--a flaw to be fixed.

At 3:20: Cut away from Tienken on a panel at apublic forum; metro ride to Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building; voiceover:
“Parents, students and educators are being forced to comply with a broken system that has no evidence to support it. Professional judgment, local expertise, scientific evidence, moral responsibility and ethical behavior have been subjugated at the altar of centralization and standardization brought on by an ever-expanding relationship between America’s corporate education complex and policymakers.”


Tienken's over-the-top rhetoric lapses into ignorant bigotry with this:
8:39 "to state otherwise is like saying the sun revolves around the earth. That's pre-Enlightenment thinking. To make policy based on that thinking is professionally and ethically reckless." 
Did Tienken learn his world history in East German schools? Or did he mistake Bertholt Brecht's "Galileo" for a PBS documentary?

Bottom line: Tienken's message is a loser:
"Please respect the professional judgment of teachers who embrace hollow rhetoric, propaganda, and ignorant bigotry."


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 From: Margaret DeLacy <margaretdelacy at comcast.net>
 

I am on the fence about the Common Core but I wouldn't recommend this video.  Too many of its claims are inaccurate.  

The biggest problem is that it confuses a standardized test with a single standardized curriculum, but there are other problems as well. 

A good argument against the CC needs to start with the truth.  

Margaret
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