Lise,
Thank you for bringing up these important points. There is
information out there about who is behind the Common Core and what
they stand to gain, but that's not what's carried in the mainstream
press.
This is being promoted as some way to "equalize" education. It
conveniently sidesteps the big un-equalizer: poverty. The aim, as you
say, is to privatize, privatize, privatize. The standards movement
and RTTT has us swimming in "data." In my school, we have "data team
meetings" where we used to have child studies. The child is being
erased in favor of so-called data, which, when are mainly numbers,
since usefully descriptive data are not crunchable by a computer
program.
Parents and teachers are organizing: see Elisa's post about the Save
Our Schools movement and march.
--Ellen
At 10:05 AM -0700 5/22/11, Lise wrote:
Did anyone look at the exemplars for middle school literature? I did. Among
the gems: Little Women (really?- my Hispanic 8th grade boys will love this
one), Tom Sawyer, Call of the Wild, Charge of the Light Brigade. Do the
creators of these standards think there hasn't been any literature worth
reading during the past 100 years?
How many of you are aware of the fact that Bill Gates' fingerprints and his
millions given to his foundations are all over these standards? Once again
we follow like sheep, not fighting back or challenging the system that would
love to privatize public education.
Lise
P.S. Marion Brady is one of my heroes
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