Obamacare implementation
is bad? The implementation of the Common Core is far worse,” said American
Federation for Teachers president Randi Weingarten at the National Education
Writers Association last month.
Though she is ostensibly supportive of national standards, Weingarten joins a chorus of concern about the push for Common Core standards and tests and their hasty implementation.
In May, Weingarten called for a moratorium on the stakes associated with the
Common Core assessments—effectively requesting that no penalties be levied on
teachers whose students fare poorly on the new tests—stating that when it comes
to educational decision making, “they simply don’t get it in Washington.” She
proposed at least one year of field testing the standards.
“Fifth-grade teachers,
for example, have been told to follow a new, scripted 500-page curriculum pretty
much to the letter. It’s an inexcusable information dump,” she writes.
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