The speaker is Jason Zimba, one of the three drafters of the Common Core math standards. The questioner is Dr. Sandra Stotsky. This exchange took place at a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education on March 23, 2010. As you will hear, Dr. Zimba admits not only that the CC math…
On October 6th, KELO TV aired an installment of Eye on Keloland with the subject of Common Core. The first thing Dr. Schopp said was the National Governor’s Association commissioned a number of national experts from across the nation. Please name the content experts who wrote the standards. These standards were written by 5 people.…
Three of the speakers for today’s Core Concerns Conference have arrived and have been given the grand tour. Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Jenni White, and Florence Thompson have a wealth of information to share about the Common Core State Standards, the data collection associated with the Standards, and the cognitive and developmental concerns associated with the…
My School Says It’s Just Standards. Isn’t That True? Common Core… is a set of national K-12 standards that takes away local control of South Dakota Schools and shifts all control to the Federal Government in exchange for the promise of Federal Funds gives the Federal Government and certain large corporations access to your child’s…
I have heard from many parents who are experiencing first hand the problems with math being taught as a concept to the young child who is cognitively not ready for concepts. Math class is no longer about knowing your math facts. Common Core changes everything about education. The percentages and the letter grades of the…
My School Says It’s Just Standards. Isn’t That True? Common Core Standards are a set of Math and English Language Arts Standards that have currently been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia. Is South Dakota able to change the content of the standards? Who will have control over the standards in the…
On September 21, Bill Gates did an interview in which he said, “It would be great if our education stuff worked, but that we won’t know for probably a decade.” In this story written by the Washington Post, the author laments that teachers are now to be evaluated by this experiment and will be losing…
Megan Tschetter, a mom in South Dakota posted the following on her FB page. She has given permission to publish it here. Thank-you Megan. I am writing this with the purest intentions. If you know me, then you know I am not a flake. (I hope) The last year has been a rollercoaster ride concerning…
Dr. Stotsky retired from the University of Arkansas in December 2012. She is now Professor of Education Emerita. She was Senior Associate Commissioner in the Massachusetts Department of Education from 1999 to 2003, where she was in charge of revising all K-12 academic standards, teacher and administrator licensing regulations and licensure tests, and professional development.…
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South Dakotans Against Common Core 