What Three Things Bother You Most about the Common Core?
Question of the Day, from Jean Schutt-McTavish, a principal in New York who is briefing a political candidate on education issues:
What are your top three criticisms of the Common Core?
Schutt's gotten some pretty amazing responses, including this one--Won't Get Fooled Again-- from my Michigan buddy and rational math teacher extraordinaire, Michael Goldenberg. Mike doesn't hold back:
It is another doomed attempt to bring about meaningful change through a top-down, punitive system that will be badly misunderstood by many - even if everything in it were good, which is far from the case - and resented by those who for good reasons or bad view it as a wrong-headed path. Much research indicates that such reforms are fated to fail badly because few at the ground
