Common Core was not developed by teachers, it was developed by big business and the governors association. It is a copyrighted and patented program that can not be gotten out of by the 377 states that took Race to the Top money.
Why does anyone think CC is a good idea?
My daughter is going to the community college and has several students in her chemistry class who are taking remedial math and they just graduated high school. Americans are not getting a good education now and it will only get worse.
It kinda makes a person wonder whose “friend” the developers were.
Actually, it was not developed by the Governors' Assn. It was 2 firms of lobbyists, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Governors signed on to get money grants and to get out of "No Child Left Behind". Now they are stuck. They can't get out without paying back the money that they took.
Text book and test publishers are behind Common Core too. But, if enough states opt out of this program, the text book publishers will follow with appropriate materials. I heard a lecture (anti Common Core) where a college professor says that you can take your child to any college administration and offer to take the college's own placement tests in English and Math, instead of the SAT. And the colleges will be happy to comply and admit your child without an SAT score.
Did you know that the head of the SAT also sits on one of the lobbyist groups behind Common Core? And Tuessday morning the SAT people announced that they were revising their tests andd their scoring methods.