+23253 Concerning the common core curriculum in mathematics:
It has no consideration for the needs and abilities of all students.
It is a top-down approach to dictate a set of standards for everyone which have value for very few.
It argues that we need ot raise the standards of all, but should all be able to do engineering calculus when they want to be artists, auto mechanics, or dentists?
It would make as much sense to dictate that every student should be able to play the bassoon at an "all-state" level in order to get a high school diploma, or to be able to write comparison essays in both the styles of Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemmingway.
If you beleive that every fruit should be a banana (because a few ultra successful, and ultra lucky computer geniuses love bananas), you can agree with its philosophical foundations.
+23253 Concerning the common core curriculum in mathematics:
It has no consideration for the needs and abilities of all students.
It is a top-down approach to dictate a set of standards for everyone which have value for very few.
It argues that we need ot raise the standards of all, but should all be able to do engineering calculus when they want to be artists, auto mechanics, or dentists?
It would make as much sense to dictate that every student should be able to play the bassoon at an "all-state" level in order to get a high school diploma, or to be able to write comparison essays in both the styles of Thomas Wolfe and Ernest Hemmingway.
If you beleive that every fruit should be a banana (because a few ultra successful, and ultra lucky computer geniuses love bananas), you can agree with its philosophical foundations.
