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 […]
“State-Led” Common Core Primarily Had Only Five Writers
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 […]
Phil Daro: The Reason We Have Standards Is Because of the Social Justice Agenda
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 […]