Before Common Core, many state English standards were specific. For example, the 2010 Massachusetts ... affects teachers in other subject areas. In addition to teaching their own content standards ...

AEI’s Rick Hess calls it the Common Core-ification of the SAT. One of the major new changes to the SAT includes eliminating difficult words. Hess gives examples such as “punctilious” and ...

Chances are if you say the two words “Common Core” to a parent ... our doctor we could keep our doctor. For example, simple multiplication, addition and subtraction problems can no longer ...

(For example 149 plus 236 becomes ... is not explicitly required by the Common Core standards, though the standards suggest this approach for teaching addition to first-graders.

Virtually every example of one of these attacks on the Common Core fall into one of two categories ... to get at a different way of thinking about addition and subtraction and their relation ...

Some eighth graders, for example ... in another forum. Common Core supporters won a number of victories in state adoptions that were later modified or overturned. In addition, social media ...

In addition, it would ban the test scores ... Hoosiers Against Common Core produced a report, for example, that said the state’s effort to craft new standards was a farce, since many common ...

Under the new Common Core State Standards in English Language ... their preparedness for college and the workplace. In addition, despite the predominant role that reading and writing serve in ...

Some people began commenting that they found the estimation problem ridiculous and a prime example of why ... estimation and repeated addition, are part of the Common Core standards, Common ...

A line-by-line review showed that, in addition to the ... about math and reading. For example, a Kindergarten reading standard in 2007 (three years before Common Core) read: “Students can ...

Here are some examples: From the Common Core website: Myth ... on teachers and standards experts from across the country. In addition, there were many state experts that came together to create ...

Take the example of America's schools. Right now, 45 states are implementing new academic standards, known as the Common Core, which will improve education for millions of students. Unfortunately ...