tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337206901491734394.post4013720424714847015..comments2024-03-22T01:00:38.320-04:00Comments on I.N.K.: It's All About Momentum Linda Salzmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17217322360480267856noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337206901491734394.post-51739715538207946892013-03-12T17:39:07.032-04:002013-03-12T17:39:07.032-04:00Definitely a educational publish. When i appriciat...Definitely a educational publish. When i appriciate your time and effort. The niche you mentioned above are often very useful to everybody to help work out. Marvelous career. Keep the good function planning. All the best . money for hard times articles.<br /><a href="http://www.mensuitsbuy.com/products/Casino-Royale-James-Bond-Suit.html" rel="nofollow">Casino Royale Suit</a>Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11108396023344527254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337206901491734394.post-68975362108050920512013-03-12T17:36:29.587-04:002013-03-12T17:36:29.587-04:00This comment has been removed by the author.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11108396023344527254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337206901491734394.post-42420741842922020192013-03-12T15:10:19.973-04:002013-03-12T15:10:19.973-04:00Jim,
After forty years of teaching I couldn't...Jim, <br />After forty years of teaching I couldn't agree with you more about keeping a reasoned voice, as well as the need for all people to speak up reasonably about their positions and support them fully.<br />I hope you will comment on Diane's blog, since she welcomes (and always has) comments and even guest posts from all sides.NEVER has she discouraged open and honest discussion of all points of view. Also check her archives sometime to see her "ground rules" which rule out obscenity and personal attacks. Other than that, she welcomes open discussion. <br />The issue isn't the CCSS as an entity, and I won't repeat her arguments against the coercive way in which they have been been instituted. Since they began she refrained from taking any position about them except to say that they were never piloted and the creators of them did not represent educators or those knowledgeable in the various domains. <br />This is factual, not a rant. Only in the past month did she finally take a position against the implementation of them as a coercive tool. 46 states signed on because without doing so they would be denied ANY federal dollars, and no one can afford to do that. <br />There was NO state representation, no educator representation in their development, but rather a third party(ies) created them from a conglomeration of state standards arbitrarily.<br />Ask Vicki how strongly I agree with the need to have quality non-fiction trade books as the core of high-level instruction, exploration, and research in all disciplines. Always have, always will. I agree fully that the mandates of CCSS open a market for your work and will increase the publishing demand for new (and backlist) titles. I applaud and celebrate that, along with any and all initiatives to engage kids with these materials.<br />My concern is not that a reasoned and open discussion take place, but that any objection to the current status of the CCSS be seen as a "rant" or a polemic of some sort. Diane is the most reasoned and researched educator around, and holds us all to that standard. <br />The issue is the politicization of education at the cost to children. Testing will be mandates, and it will ONLY be in reading/math, not across the board.<br />CCSS IS a reality that has started and will continue to shift the markets in your favor. Just realize that the massive amounts of dollars (billions-with a /b/) that education pumps into the CCSS will end up in the hands of packaged programmers and test-makers. Perhaps your work will be excerpted and will generate some additional funds for authentic creators of literature for young readers, but the vast majority of it will move right out of your reach.<br />When you speak up about CCSS, and I urge you to do so at every opportunity, please understand the source of pushback is likely coming from parents, educators and others who are opposed to children being co-opted for the sake of hedge funds, not about an authentic development and use of standards.Sandy Brehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02073122273951186418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337206901491734394.post-42416711685498600752013-03-12T13:16:50.421-04:002013-03-12T13:16:50.421-04:00I agree Sandy. Even Diane Ravitch admits there...I agree Sandy. Even Diane Ravitch admits there's good things going on in the CCSS (though she quickly pushes that aside to continue her rant). I see it as a strategy to wear people down with a constant, droning message and get them to either be quiet or sign onto her side. I just think a leveled-headed response would at least give some balance to the ongoing discussion. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12724255232058112413noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1337206901491734394.post-30470666092545495222013-03-12T10:56:14.368-04:002013-03-12T10:56:14.368-04:00Jim, the pushback you're noting is not about t...Jim, the pushback you're noting is not about the importance of teaching the topics in CCSS, but about using it as a tool for furthering the labeling of schools as failures and moving public education into a private enterprise funded by public dollars. See this post:<br />http://dianeravitch.net/2013/03/12/brian-ford-says-repeat-after-me/<br />Using authentic, high quality literature to develop knowledge and understanding of all subject areas is at the core of good learning, but arbitrary and invalid testing is not.Sandy Brehlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02073122273951186418noreply@blogger.com