Tag: David Coleman
Put Down the Common Core Kool-Aid
Joy Pullman has to be one of my favorite people who writes about the Common Core. I didn’t realize that she was an Indiana resident until today. She recently wrote this op/ed for one of her hometown newspapers, The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. The first couple paragraphs of her piece articulates the skepticism we should [...]
Classic Literature–A Bipartisan Issue
Even the Huffington Post is noting the concern about the Common Core ELA Standards being light on classic literature for high school seniors. They write: But the new guidelines are increasingly worrying English-lovers and English teachers, who feel they must replace literary greats like The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye with Common Core-suggested [...]
How Much Literature Will Kids Actually Read?
SchoolBook recently interviewed David Coleman who is now President of the College Board before his tenure there he was one of the chief authors of the Common Core State Standards. He defended against the charge that 70% of the reading that will be done under the ELA standards are informational texts saying literature remains critical. [...]
Why Homeschoolers & Christian School Parents Should Be Concerned About the Common Core
A couple of our partners were interviewed by Napp Nazworth of The Christian Post. They both expressed concerns about the Federal government’s involvement in promoting the Common Core State Standards and what that could mean for homeschooling and Christian schools in the future. In an interview with The Christian Post, Maureen Van Den Berg, legislative [...]
Now We See How A Common Core Failure Will Be Spun
Blame the teachers… via EdWeek’s Andrew Ujifusa reporting from the Education Commission of States policy meeting that was held in Atlanta last week: Zimba fended off a question from an audience member about whether the common core had been comprehensively tested in the field by saying the common core is the result of a decade-long [...]
