Post by Chris_Wendt on Sept 3, 2014 5:48:50 GMT -5
"According to a recent study by the Education Week Research Center, fewer than one-third of teachers nationwide say their textbooks are aligned with the Common Core standards."
Say it isn't so!
But what about those little gold seals that textbook publishers have been placing on their books to reassure parents and teachers alike that the books are aligned with the Common Core?
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But take heart, you believers in the Common Core Cabal: "EdReports.org, a new national organization is taking on the task of vetting textbooks to determine if they are Common Core aligned. The group will start this year by analyzing 21 math textbook series for grades K through 8."
d**n the money, full speed ahead!
Three of my nine grandchildren are beyond the reach of the Common Core Baloney, age-wise.
Four are too young to have their education ruined by the Common Core debacle at this stage; there is hope, but the window is short to get Common Core right, or, to abandon it.
Two are right smack-dab in the middle of all the nonsense, which is a terrible word to have to use in the same sentence as education, but I lack a better word. Nonsense. Ridiculous.
Source: Link to WYPR Article by Gwendolyn Glenn 8/29/2014
Regards,
Chris Wendt
Say it isn't so!
"School districts nationwide are struggling to find textbooks that are aligned with the rigorous Common Core standards for math and English Language Arts.What? Does this imply that the Common Core was unleashed before schools were ready for it? ...before textbook publishers were ready with appropriately aligned books? Yes, it does imply that.
Some critics say that’s because the controversial standards have outpaced resources."
But what about those little gold seals that textbook publishers have been placing on their books to reassure parents and teachers alike that the books are aligned with the Common Core?
“A lot of the textbook publishers started to put little seals on their books saying they were Common Core aligned, even before the standards had been approved”, claims Richard Weisenhoff, Baltimore County's Executive Director of Academics.
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Several national education groups conducted studies to determine the quality of textbooks school districts used last year.Huh?
“We found that they don't line up well with the Common Core,” said Dr. William Schmidt, director of Michigan State's Center for the Study of Curriculum. Schmidt led a study that analyzed more than 700 books used in grades K through eight. He said the books he reviewed were used by 60 percent of students nationwide and they came up short.
“Many of the standards that should be in the book for a grade level are not there and there's a great deal of space in those textbooks given to standards from other grade levels,” Schmidt said. “In other words, a large portion of the book is about other things than what should be covered at that particular grade level.”
“At this point, the jury is out on whether we have any good, well aligned books, so I'm hesitant to suggest buying something new at this point,” Schmidt said.
But take heart, you believers in the Common Core Cabal: "EdReports.org, a new national organization is taking on the task of vetting textbooks to determine if they are Common Core aligned. The group will start this year by analyzing 21 math textbook series for grades K through 8."
d**n the money, full speed ahead!
Three of my nine grandchildren are beyond the reach of the Common Core Baloney, age-wise.
Four are too young to have their education ruined by the Common Core debacle at this stage; there is hope, but the window is short to get Common Core right, or, to abandon it.
Two are right smack-dab in the middle of all the nonsense, which is a terrible word to have to use in the same sentence as education, but I lack a better word. Nonsense. Ridiculous.
Source: Link to WYPR Article by Gwendolyn Glenn 8/29/2014
Regards,
Chris Wendt