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Asking Questions that Matter: A Guide
NOTE: This exchange is from an NCTE discussion list. Barbara Cambridge is Director, NCTE Washington, DC, Office. Stephen Krashen needs no introduction.
Original Message:
Sent: 01-07-2011 16:03
From: Barbara Cambridge
Subject: State Efforts to Tie Common Core Standards to Higher Education
This Center for Education Policy report reveals that most state education departments do not plan to coordinate admissions to college, curriculum, or teacher preparation with the Common Core Standards they have adopted. What actions might you take in your state to encourage coordination? From your place in the educational system, what could you do to help students have a more seamless path from high school to college?
From: Stephen Krashen
To: NCTE Members Open Forum
Posted: 1/8/2011 3:40:00 PM
Subject: RE:State Efforts to Tie Common Core Standards to Higher Education
Barbara Cambridge's question of how to help students make a "seamless transition" from high school to college assumes that there is a serious transition problem and that coordination with the Common Core standards is the way to solve it. I don't think either assumption is correct.
The Common Core standards are a colossal mistake. There is no demonstrated need for them, and they, along with the astonishing amount of testing planned to enforce them, will cost billions.
As long as NCTE staff feel obligated to present us with discussion questions, here is one for them: We are urged to make high school more college-prep through adherence to standards. We are urged to make elementary school more high school prep, and then make kindergarten more elementary school prep. There is even an effort to make pre-school more kindergarten prep. What's next? What evidence is there that any of this is necessary?
One more discussion question: When Bill Gates says jump, what should we say?
— Barbara Cambridge and Stephen Krashen
NCTE Open Forum
2011-01-08
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