Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesGoing Deep into Common Core Kindergarten ELA/Literacy StandardsResponding to J. Richard Gentry’s defense of six specific standards.Feb 23, 2015Feb 23, 2015
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesI’ll Be Happy to Tell You What I Don’t LikeAbout specific Common Core ELA/Literacy StandardsApr 28, 2014Apr 28, 2014
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesSignal and Noise in the Common Core ELA/Literacy StandardsRetelling and recounting.Mar 18, 2014Mar 18, 2014
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesWhat Happened to the American Diploma Project? A Common Core MysteryRead like a detective.Jan 17, 2014Jan 17, 2014
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesCommon Core ELA “Shifts” Don’t Depend on Common Core StandardsBelieve it or not, your old standards permitted students to read non-fiction too.Jan 10, 2014Jan 10, 2014
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesRepetition and Clarity in StandardsDo “X” in third grade; keep doing “X” in fourth grade. What’s confusing about that?Dec 13, 2013Dec 13, 2013
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesWhy Are the Common Core Standards Interested in 18th Century American Literature?Get ready for the Philip Freneau revival.Dec 10, 2013Dec 10, 2013
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesWho Wrote Common Core State Standards Initiative Standards-Setting Criteria?If it is a secret, it is a conspiracy.Dec 10, 20131Dec 10, 20131
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesThe Anchor StandardsThe root of many problems in the Common Core StandardsDec 10, 2013Dec 10, 2013
Tom HoffmaninCommon Core AnnoyancesEnglish-language Arts Work Group for College and Career Readiness Standards (the Anchor Standards)Once these people wrote the anchor standards, everything else was just fine tuning.Dec 9, 2013Dec 9, 2013