Blog Everything you need to know about Common Core — Ravitch Share This Post Education / Government Everything you need to know about Common Core — Ravitch By redkudzu_admin on January 18th 2014 No Comments / 160 views By Valerie Strauss Diane Ravitch, the education historian who has become the leader of the movement against corporate-influenced school reform, gave this speech to the Modern Language Association on Jan. 11 about the past, present and future of the Common Core State Standards. Here’s her speech: As an organization of teachers and scholars devoted to the study of language and literature, MLA should be deeply involved in the debate about theCommon Core standards. The Common Core standards were developed in 2009 and released in 2010. Within a matter of months, they had been endorsed by 45 states and the District of Columbia. At present, publishers are aligning their materials with the Common Core, technology companies are creating software and curriculum aligned with the Common Core, and two federally-funded consortia have created online tests of the Common Core. What are the Common Core standards? Who produced them? Why are they controversial? How did their adoption happen so quickly? Read more… Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Login with: Continue with Facebook Continue with Google Continue with Twitter Common Core Education Political Share This Post redkudzu_admin The goal of this site is to give information. Whether from national sites or locally in Georgia. Related Articles Cuban restaurant owner in Louisville decries BLM’s ‘mafia tactics’ after receiving a letter with a list of diversity demands that he was told to meet or risk social media shaming, a public boycott or having his storefront ‘f***** with’ August 3rd 2020 Hagerty Holds Up the Senate—For Good Reason August 7th 2021 MEL GIBSON AND VINCE VAUGHN WERE NOT FEELING MERYL STREEP’S ANTI-TRUMP HATE SPEECH [VIDEO] January 9th 2017