Illuminating the complexities, contradictions and screw-ups of the Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Feb 23, 2015

Going Deep into Common Core Kindergarten ELA/Literacy Standards

Responding to J. Richard Gentry’s defense of six specific standards.

Going Deep into the Common Core Kindergarten ELA/Literacy Standards

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Apr 28, 2014

I’ll Be Happy to Tell You What I Don’t Like

About specific Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards

Erik Palmer issues a challenge:

For some time now, I have been asking haters to tell me exactly which standard they…

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Mar 17, 2014

Signal and Noise in the Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards

Retelling and recounting.

Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards Development Team member Timothy Shanahan recently cited an example of a common question about the standards he might receive…

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Jan 17, 2014

What Happened to the American Diploma Project? A Common Core Mystery

Read like a detective.

Joy Resmovits recent Huffington Post piece How The Common Core Became Education’s Biggest Bogeyman lays out an origin story for the standards…

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Jan 10, 2014

Common Core ELA “Shifts” Don’t Depend on Common Core Standards

Believe it or not, your old standards permitted students to read non-fiction too.

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Dec 13, 2013

Repetition and Clarity in Standards

Do “X” in third grade; keep doing “X” in fourth grade. What’s confusing about that?

I happened to be reading Fordham’s review of the old NECAP Reading Grade Level Expections, used by…

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Dec 10, 2013

Why Are the Common Core Standards Interested in 18th Century American Literature?

Get ready for the Philip Freneau revival.

From the 11-12th grade Reading standards:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.11-12.9…

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Dec 9, 2013

Who Wrote Common Core State Standards Initiative Standards-Setting Criteria?

If it is a secret, it is a conspiracy.

On their Process page, the Common Core State Standards Initiative (which is not an organization) includes a…

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Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Dec 9, 2013

The Anchor Standards

The root of many problems in the Common Core Standards

There are a few basic premises in the Common Core ELA/Literacy standards for Reading:

There is a fairly short set of discrete skills necessary to be…

Tom Hoffman in Common Core Annoyances

Dec 9, 2013

English-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.

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