Product Review

WHAT IS COMMON CORE?
A Critique
Cutting through the hype from supporters and defenders of the CCSS, this book documents the process for the adoption and implementation of the Common Core, which was developed as the result of politicians and business men deciding to create change in the education community so the U.S. could compete better in the global marketplace.

This insightful critique focus on these issues:

1. Is the CCSS a “national curriculum?”
2. The CCSS relies on a national student database: the pros and cons of keeping tabs on students.
3. Constructivism Mathematics is the basis of Common Core math. What does that mean for instruction, student homework and fluency with multiplication tables.
4. New Criticism Literary Analysis is the basis of Common Core ELA. Explore this theory of reading that underlies all language arts activities.
5. Explore reasons why the CCSS, a public policy document, is privately copyrighted and can’t be changed, modified, or corrected.