Common Core Math Is Just Good Math
Boston College Mathematics Department Chair Solomon Friedberg is totally against fuzzy math. In the USA Today article, “Common Core Math is Not Fuzzy,” Dr. Friedberg provides a straightforward explanation about how the Common Core State Standards provide the foundations for students to get a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts and sets higher expectations for teachers and what students learn.
Read More →Higher Ed and Common Core: The Greater Academic Alignment
In response to New America’s recent policy paper, Common Core Goes to College: Building Better Connections Between High School and Higher Education, Jacqueline King, director of higher education collaboration for the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, reflects on the engagement between higher education and K-12 to develop a “greater academic alignment.” “I see more reasons for […]
Read More →The Core Truths of Mathematics Education
Get involved in the dialogue for mathematics learning of all students! Diane J. Briars, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, urges us all – especially parents and teachers – to “distinguish the Common Core State Standards Math facts from the fallacies” in her message, Core Truths.
Read More →Chester Finn Responds with Whats Right About The Common Core
By The Hunt Team
In the Common Core Watch blog, “Almost, Peggy, But This Time Not Quite,” Chester E. Finn, Jr. of the Fordham Institute responds to The Wall Street Journal opinion blog, “The Trouble With The Common Core,” by columnist Peggy Noonan. Finn comments in the blog that when it comes to Common Core facts, Noonan is only about 60 percent correct. He explains in the following:
Read More →New Initiative to Promote Goals of Higher Standards
The Hunt Institute, the Bipartisan Policy Center, and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation launched a new initiative to support the goals of the Common Core State Standards. The organizations will emphasize their importance to students, while also trying to dispel myths about the standards. The new partnership was announced by Delaware Gov. Jack Markell (D), a prominent supporter of the common core, during a press conference in Wilmington, on March 10, 2012.
Read More →Gates Foundation’s Vicki Phillips: Common Core Momentum II
Vicki Phillips, director of education, college ready at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, continues her discussion about the momentum of the Common Core implementation process on Eduwonk.com. The first part of her discussion – Eduwonk: Gates Foundation’s Vicki Phillips On Common Core Momentum – can be found here. “Stick-to-itiveness. Determination. Tenacity. Grit. These are […]
Read More →Why do CEO’s support the Common Core State Standards? Craig Barrett, former Intel CEO and chairman and current CEO of BASIS Schools – one of the highest-performing charter school systems in the country – speaks candidly about why businesses and higher education benefit from the Common Core in the Journal Sentinel op-ed, “Why CEO’s Support […]
Lies, damned lies, and the Common Core
By The Hunt Team
Michael J. Petrilli, executive vice president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and one of the nation’s foremost education analysts, addresses more false claims about the Common Core State Standards in the Fordham Institute’s Flypaper blog, “Lies, damned lies, and the Common Core.”
If you want to understand why supporters of the Common Core are frustrated—OK, exasperated—by some of our opponents’ seemingly unlimited willingness to engage in dishonest debate, consider this latest episode.
On Monday, EAG News published an article entitled, “Common Core math question for sixth graders: Was the 2000 election ‘fair’?”
Would you ever consider the question ‘Whom do you want to be president?’ to be asked of your third grader during a math class (or any class)?
Would you expect your fourth grader to be asked to create a chart of presidents along with their political persuasions? Or, how about a discussion on whether the 2000 presidential election resulted in a “fair” outcome? Or, what if the teacher for your sixth grader was advised to “be prepared” to discuss the “politically charged” 2000 election – all during math.
Common Core aligned, of course.
This was picked up by the Daily Caller’s Eric Owens on Wednesday, who piled on via his article, “Common Core MATH lesson plans attack Reagan, list Lincoln’s religion as ‘liberal’”
Another week has gone by and, like clockwork, some more hilariously awful Common Core math lessons have oozed out of the woodwork.
And the story jumped to cable news this morning on a Fox segment, “Common Core lesson lists Abraham Lincoln as a liberal.”
So this is pretty damning for the Common Core, right?
Wrong.
Read More →Eduwonk: Gates Foundation’s Vicki Phillips On Common Core Momentum
Vicki Phillips, director of education, college ready at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, offers a compelling and supportive piece about the implementation of the Common Core State Standards on Eduwonk.com. Phillips provides a clear picture on the Gates Foundation’s position on the importance of accountability, thoughtful implementation, and high-stakes consequences – all in support […]
Read More →There’s a Lot Left to Learn From Jim Hunt
By The Hunt Team
Sacramento Bee Associate Editor Foon Rhee shares his views on the political careers of California’s Governor Jerry Brown and North Carolina’s former Governor Jim Hunt in the op-ed, Editorial notebook: Jerry Brown could learn a thing or two from Jim Hunt, who took a similar path. A former reporter for The Charlotte Observer, Rhee discusses the parallel roads taken by these two longest serving governors in their states.
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