Top 10 Facts About National Standards (Common Core)

10 FACTS ABOUT COMMON CORE

1.    Our children are unique. Oklahoma as a state is unique. Common core is one size fits all.

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/02/23/national-curriculum-2013-should-one-size-fits-all.html

www.hslda.org/commoncore

2.    There was NO legislative vote on Common Core as a national curriculum.

http://truthinamericaneducation.com/uncategorized/south-carolina-education-committee-vote-calls-common-core-scrutiny/

3.    Common core is very expensive to implement, and the funds run out quickly.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/82477413/Common-Core-State-Standards-Implementation-Cost

4.    Common core standards are primarily funded by special interest groups.

http://commoncore.fwsites.org/

5.    All students will be scrutinized into MANY different longitudinal databases and tracking programs.

http://www.conservativeteachersofamerica.com/2013/03/13/common-core-is-not-just-about-data-mining

6.    Subjects will strictly be introduced and it will cause teachers to “teach to the test.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/04/principal-i-was-naive-about-common-core/

7.    Choice reading and classic literature selection is replaced with “informational texts.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/common-core-nonfiction-reading-standards_n_2271229.html

8.    Little effort and/or exceptions will be made for special needs, gift & talented, or struggling learners.

http://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/educator-tips/what-special-education-teachers-need-to-know-about-the-common-core-standards/

9.    The standards written expect students to learn in a way that they are not physically or developmentally ready for.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrQbJlmVJZo&app=desktop

10.   Common core standards remove ALL absolute truths in exchange for relative abstract reasoning through Outcome Based Education, a Progressive approach instead of Traditional academics.

http://www.probe.org/site/c.fdKEIMNsEoG/b.4218117/k.760A/Outcome_Based_Education.htm

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