CURMUDGUCATION: Coleman to Catholics: Never Mind Common Core

CURMUDGUCATION: Coleman to Catholics: Never Mind Common Core:

Coleman to Catholics: Never Mind Common Core

In an exclusive interview with Catholic Education Daily, David Colman, architect of Common Core and head honcho at the College Board, offered some of the same old same old. But he also told Catholic schools that they could just nevermind the Common Core.

Do Catholics not love the Core? 

Writer Adam Cassandra has put together a good overview of the odd and sometimes-difficult relationship between the Catholic school system and the Common Core-- or at least the Core's co-creator.

The Catholic system has been fairly direct about its resistance to the core, including a wholeCatholic Is Our Core campaign. Their objections are familiar to the umpty-gazillion educators, parents and people on the street who have objections to the Common Core. For instance, Dr. Dan Guernsey and Dr. Denise Donohue of the Newman Society wrote a report last May called “Disconnect between Common Core’s Literary Approach and Catholic Education’s Pursuit of Truth.” That included this Fairly Excellent Quote:

In Catholic schools, we know we are not just producing workers and scholars, we are producing living, breathing, complex, contradictory, eternally destined, unrepeatable and immensely valuable CURMUDGUCATION: Coleman to Catholics: Never Mind Common Core: