Articles

News media is full of articles about the Common Core.  Below are a few articles that I’ve run across.

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General Information

• Here is the link to the Common Core State Standards Initiative. From this site you can find the Common Core Standards for Math and English / Language Arts and information about the initiative.
• Here is a link to the Fordham Foundation’s report on the Draft Common Core Math and English Language Arts standards: Review of the Draft K-12 Common Core Standards.
• Here is a link to the Fordham Foundation’s report comparing the Common Core Standards to state standards: The State of State Standards–and the Common Core – in 2010.
• Here is a link to the National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education’s Conceptual Framework for New Science Education Standards

Opinions on the Common Core

• Sandra Stotsky and Ze’ev Wurman : Why Race to the Middle?
• Sandra Stotsky and Ze’ev Wurman : Common Core’s Standards Still Don’t Make the Grade
• McClatchy: How ‘Race to the Top’ is rewriting U.S. Education
• Neal McCluskey of the CATO Institute: Here Come the Federal Education Standards

and Ever So Quietly, National Standards Spread

• Tamar Lewin of the NYTimes: Many States Adopt National Standards for Their Schools
• LATimes: ‘Common core standards’: education reform that makes sense
• NYTimes Debate: Will National Standards Improve Education?
• Ze’ev Wurman : Why California Should Not Have Adopted the Common Core
• William J. Mathis, Ph.D., The University of Colorado at Boulder, The Education Policy and Research Unit :Common Core School Standards Roll On Without Supporting Evidence
• Sandra Strotsky on Jay Greene’s Blog : The Ascent of America’s Choice and and Continuing Descent of America’s High Schools

Opinions on the Common Core Mathematics Standards

• James Milgram : Review of Common Core Math Standards
• Barry Garelick of Education News: The Common Core Math Standards: When Understanding is Overrated
• Jonathan Goodman of Education News: A comparison of proposed US Common Core math standard to standards of selected Asian countries.
• Bill Evers and Ze’ev Wurman of The Sacramento Bee: Proposed math standards unteachable
• US Coalition for World Class Math : Comments on the Common Core Math Standards

Opinions on the Common Core Science Standards

• Lindsey Burke in The Heritage Foundation’s The Foundry: The Slippery Slope Toward National Science Standards

The Money In National Standards

• Catherine Gwertz of Education Week : Big Bucks in the World of Common Standards, Tests

ESEA

• Here is a Link to the ESEA Blueprint for Reform
• Leonie Haimson & Julie Woestehoff of Education Week: Shutting Out Parents – Obama’s Disappointing Blueprint for Reform