Everything You Need To Know About Common Core:
Diane Ravitch
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Summary
“Everything You Need to Know About Common
Core”, is a transcript of a speech given by Diane Ravitch that discussed how the Common Core came to be and what the
implications of the Common Core are. Ravitch reviews the implications of No
Child Left Behind and then moves into Race to the Top, both linking teacher
performance to test scores. This leads to her discussion about Common Core and
the lack of field testing, the power of the testing corporations and the creation
of a test-based meritocracy. Ravitch also
offers suggestions that would improve Common Core.
Opinion
This was the first thing I read for class this semester. It
has become one of the most important things I have ever read, not only for my
career, but more importantly for my children. I think that Ravitch make an excellent
argument against the Common Core, and our failing education system. No other nation
tests their children the way we do. It is not effective as a tool to test student
knowledge or teaching skills. The idea that a generation of children will be taught
based on un-editable, untested standards is frightening. Not everything about Common Core is bad; and I
would have liked for Ravitch to discuss some of the positive ideas in Common
core like the inclusion of 21st Century skills.
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