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Emanuel Vows Fix For Math and English
Ohanian Comment: Watch out, Chicago. The curriculum Rahm Emanuel is talking about exists. It has been produced by the Common Core Standards Mapping Project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Hey, they brought us the Common Core, so it makes sense that they provide the maps, too. Leave nothing to chance. Assume teachers are stupid. Take charge. This is the mantra of the neo-liberals who are now in charge of education in this country.
Common Core Mapping Project, part 1
Common Core Mapping Project, part 2
Common Core 12th Grade Poetry Recitation
Common Core: What the Bill Gates Crew Wants 8th graders to Read
Teacher Professionalism: Pedagogy and Politics
Get active, Chicago. Get CORE onto this. Or stay silent: You have nothing to lose but your professionalism.
NOTE: This online article was accompanied by an ad from America's Choice, the outfit created by Marc Tucker and Judy Codding. Read Tucker's Dear Hillary letter. Don't be put off by the fact it's on the Eagle Forum website. They got it right while the progressives were snoozing, unwilling to admit that one of their own was fermenting evil. Hey, the progressives are still asleep and/or collaborating with the enemy.
by Dan Mihalopoulos
Rahm Emanuel made a campaign promise last week that if elected mayor, he would install a new math and English language curriculum in Chicago's public schools by the end of his first term.
Mr. Emanuel said the new curriculum would be geared toward equipping students with the skills to meet the "common core standards" that education officials in Illinois and more than 40 other states have adopted. In imposing the new standards, the state has left up to the districts the question of how to try to meet those standards.
"I want us, the city of Chicago, to be the first city to adopt the curriculum that teaches toward the common standards," he said in an interview with the Chicago News Cooperative. "Nobody has taken on the initiative."
The effort would better prepare high school graduates for college or the workplace, he said.
Mr. Emanuel made clear that he meant no disrespect to Mayor Richard M. Daley, who assumed control of the city's public schools 15 years ago and has said changes in public education are his proudest accomplishment.
Gery Chico, the mayoral candidate who was city school board president, recently angered Mr. Daley by saying that the efforts to improve schools have stalled.
Mr. Emanuel instead echoed Mr. Daley's mantra about the schools. "There is no doubt we've made great strides," Mr. Emanuel said, "but you don't rest on your laurels."
The state's recent adoption of the new standards means that tests based on those goals will be given by the 2014-15 school year.
A schools watchdog expressed misgivings about the curriculum plan, although Mr. Emanuel said it would help Chicago "stop teaching toward standardized tests."
"Our major concern with common core standards," said Julie Woestehoff, executive director of Parents United for Responsible Education, "is the likelihood that they will lead to a national standardized test and even more misuse and abuse of testing than we have now."
— Dan Mihalopoulos
New York Times
2010-11-28
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/us/politics/28cncpulse.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
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