Your child must read 50% informational text, and enjoy it!
Over the weekend, NYS Education Commissioner King sent around a new parent guide about the Common Core standards, called "Shifts for Students and Parents." Here is one of the slides:
Also over the weekend, Robert Pondiscio of Core Knowledge critiqued Sandra Stotsky, who had questioned the 50% split for non-fiction on our Parents Across America blog. Stotsky, the main author of the highly-regarded Massachusetts standards, had written "It is amazing that one badly informed person [David Coleman] could single-handedly alter and weaken the entire public school curriculum in this country, without any public discussion."
In contrast, Pondiscio called the Common Core standards "common sense."
As a parent, I do not agree that mandating 50% informational text in grades K-5 and 70% thereafter is common
Also over the weekend, Robert Pondiscio of Core Knowledge critiqued Sandra Stotsky, who had questioned the 50% split for non-fiction on our Parents Across America blog. Stotsky, the main author of the highly-regarded Massachusetts standards, had written "It is amazing that one badly informed person [David Coleman] could single-handedly alter and weaken the entire public school curriculum in this country, without any public discussion."
In contrast, Pondiscio called the Common Core standards "common sense."
As a parent, I do not agree that mandating 50% informational text in grades K-5 and 70% thereafter is common
