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Related: About this forumChoking on the Common Core Standards
Many things that are commonplace activities for adults -- driving, voting, and paying taxes, for example -- are not appropriate for children. I count the Common Core State Standards, proposed for all our country's public schools, among them.
Over my more than 50 years in public education I've come to know young children pretty well, and I am sure that 8-9 years olds are not ready to "describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect," as decreed by one of the standards for third-grade readers of informational text.
In addition to the English Language Arts (ELA) standard quoted above, here are two others from the same category, the first for 6-7 year olds and the second for 10-11 year olds:
Gr. 1: Know and use various text features (e.g., headings, tables of contents, glossaries, electronic menus, icons) to locate key facts or information in a text.
Gr. 5: Analyze multiple accounts of the same event or topic, noting important similarities and differences in the point of view they
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HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)everything is being done by stealth, except the teacher-bashing.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Or how about 'National Socialist Curriculum' ?
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)The very institution and set of organizations that set this, NCLB, RTTT, and now this mess.
Screw it, time for a change....
Nevernose
(13,081 posts)It's either B or C, don't remember offhand. They've got a Walt Whitman poem ranked as a second grade reading level and The Grapes of Wrath in the ninth grade. Some of their choices would be funny if I wasn't the one being held accountable for teaching them.