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Common Core State Standards for Mathematics: Does It Add Up or Down? Part 1

April 8, 2014 By J.R. Wilson

Work Team, Feedback Group, & Validation Committee The Work Team There were 51 members listed on the Work Team for developing the Common Core State Standards. Of those 51 members, it is clear there was one actual classroom teacher listed with the possibility of one or two others. It is not evident or clear that […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core Math Standards, Hung-Hsi Wu, James Milgram, Jason Zimba, Phil Daro

“State-Led” Common Core Primarily Had Only Five Writers

June 7, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Joy Pullmann at School Reform News wrote an excellent piece that helps to further demonstrate that the Common Core State Standards were not state-led.  While there were many people who served on various committees and work groups all of the feedback was filtered by only five people. After giving a brief history of what led […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Achieve, Common Core State Standards, Council of Chief State School Officers, David Coleman, Heartland Institute, Jason Zimba, Mark Bauerlein, National Governors Association, Phil Daro, School Reform News, Susan Pimentel, William McCallum

Phil Daro: The Reason We Have Standards Is Because of the Social Justice Agenda

June 21, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Phil Daro, one of the drafters of the Common Core Math Standards was speaking to a group of educators at a curriculum publisher event last year at the California Mathematics Conference North (CMC – North Asilomar) in 2011.  At the 4:56 minute mark in the video below Daro said, “And remember that the reason we […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: California Mathematics Conference, CMC - North Asilomar, Common Core Math Standards, Oak Norton, Phil Daro, social justice

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