(Hour 1a, 3a) Oh my head! This Common Core stuff is gonna give our humble host a HEART ATTACK! Rich cited examples of CC Curriculum in and around Manchester that proves it teaches to the test. Isn’t that the very thing proponents have been saying it DOESN’T do?! Hear the examples for yourself. In addition, you won’t believe some of the other malarkey they’re putting in. Heart Warning to folks who have weak ones! AND, it appears that the same folks who wrote the tests are writing the curriculum, too. DOUBLE OH MY HEAD!! Here are the materials we discussed: Proof testing company developing teacher materials, 2nd Grade ELA challenging parents, Memorial High Common Core algebra book
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Rigor means nothing. Mostly it’s useless busywork to make the kids ‘prove’ their answer. This is the most bureaucratic communistic way of teaching I can think of.. and it’s taken over our edu system. Another bogus ‘method’ is cooperative learning and group grades. I could go on about how teachers are told to teach, let alone the ‘what’, your hair would stand up on end.