Hoosiers’ trust broken with “new” standards
Joy Pullmann has a great article on the Indiana standards review process currently working its way through the State Board of Education. Concerns have been raised that the standards are almost identical to the Common Core and those in charge of the process have a bias towards supporting Common Core. Hoosiers Against Common Core posted […]
It’s not me, it’s the standards!
I’m consistently shocked by the absurd manner in which opposition to the new standards draft is treated. The new talking point being promoted to discredit the opposition is that they are unwilling to accept anything that is offered and they will never be satisfied, no matter what standards they are offered. For that to be […]
A Peek at Indiana’s New Draft ELA Standards
We recently put out a general request for feedback on the new “draft” Indiana standards. Here are some general comments that we have heard from teachers on the ELA Standards. It is by NO means a comprehensive critique, but rather a compilation of some of the comments we have received to date. We expect that […]
New Indiana standards make things worse
Words matter, especially in the technical lingo of standards. In an earlier post, I noted that the “new” Indiana draft standards use different language when referring to the standard algorithm which is problematic. Indiana citizens wanted our state to improve our standards with this process, and encourage more traditional math. However, a back to the […]
Critique of “new” math standards by Ze’ev Wurman
In order to better inform our followers, we asked Ze’ev Wurman to complete an analysis of the new math standards intended to replace the Common Core in Indiana. Mr. Wurman is a visiting scholar at the Hoover Institution and an executive with a California technology company. He has served as a senior adviser at the U. […]
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