Has Testing Reached a Tipping Point?
January 31, 2013 by twalker
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There is a growing willingness across the country to publicly acknowledge that tests do not align well with the latest research into how people learn; that they prevent adults from measuring higher-level thinking in children; and, most importantly, that there are better ways to evaluate student learning and growth. Source: SmartBlog on Education
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I was already cynical about the Common Core. While reading my mother’s NEA magazine, I came across a pertinent article, “Getting to The Core of Common Core” by NEA President Dennis Van Roekel. The article ended with the following sentence: “Core Knowledge’s Robert Pondiscio posed an intriguing proposition worth pondering: ‘All I want for Christmas is for Common Core critics, rather than retailing [sic] scare stories that CCSS will replace literature with readings of government reports on agriculture and insulation regulations in English class, to temper their criticism even a little bit with an acknowledgment that maybe a coherent, content-rich curriculum (which CCSS does not, cannot mandate but strongly recommends) might not be the worst thing to happen to our schools.” Shakespear, Dickens, and Homer are light reading compared to this 82 word sentence. My cynicism about the Common Core remains.
Melanie Sellers
Elizabethton, Tennessee
Mother of two middle-school students
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