While the Sacramento Bee editorial board and several corporate education "reformers" castigate local teachers for opposing the imposed Core Waiver ( see below)..
The editorial board and the partisan advocates presenting themselves as leaders ignore the fact that Common Core is encountering more resistance around the country. It is not a local, personal agenda. Nor is it just a union campaign. There are substantive reasons why teachers oppose the imposed Core Waiver, and many oppose Common Core until weaknesses are remedied.
From Education Week.
The editorial board and the partisan advocates presenting themselves as leaders ignore the fact that Common Core is encountering more resistance around the country. It is not a local, personal agenda. Nor is it just a union campaign. There are substantive reasons why teachers oppose the imposed Core Waiver, and many oppose Common Core until weaknesses are remedied.
From Education Week.
Resistance to the
Common Core Mounts
Critics span the
political spectrum, from tea partyers to union leaders
After more than a year
of high-profile and contentious debate over the Common Core State Standards in
Indiana, Gov. Mike Pence signed legislation last month to formally reverse
the state's adoption of the standards. The legislation set the
state on course to replace those standards with ones "written by Hoosiers,
for Hoosiers," the Republican governor proclaimed.
The same month, the
Democratic-controlled New York Assembly approved a measure that would require a
two-year delay in using assessments aligned with the common core
for teacher and principal evaluations.
In some sense, the measures
in Indiana and New York represent two dominant poles of the growing—and
evolving—resistance to the standards. The common core has drawn criticism from
both the political left and right, though much of it seems aimed not so much at
what the standards say, but rather who drove their adoption or the tests and
accountability policies connected with them.
