Sunday, February 19, 2012
One more time.....
Core knowledge, a curriculum of the 1990s, is not aligned with the Common Core State Standards. The only thing that is in common is the word core. If you look at their web page, less than 200 schools use this curriculum. This is what I've been told. It appears to be the curriculum being pushed forward according to the Lion King's wishes. Comments?
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Bottom line-- it was never widely accepted because the research is sketchy at best. Its chief supporters tend to be upper middle class folks who have less concern with diversity and more concern with perpetuating a Euro-centric attention to learning.
ReplyDelete1. Using silly names is less effective than identifying BOE members by name. Not all of your readers may realize that you are speaking about Mike Lyons.
ReplyDelete2. Be careful that what you say is factual. He has been known to threaten libel suits in the past. :)
3. My impression of Mike has generally been that he is more motivated by conservative ideology than by pragmatism (though he might equate the former with the latter). Thus, his support for a curriculum that is grounded in a traditionalist, Euro-centric view of what knowledge is most important does not surprise me in the least.