The Common Core State Standards and Intellectual Freedom: Implications for Libraries

Autor: Loretta M. Gaffney
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy. 1:5-15
ISSN: 2474-7459
DOI: 10.5860/jifp.v1i1.5977
Popis: The Common Core State Standards are a single set of codified, grade-by-grade K-12 educational standards in both English/language arts (ELA) and math that were intended to replace previous state K-12 standards and align them with one another. The National Governors’ Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) developed Common Core in consultation with educational testing companies and with funding from the Bill Gates Foundation. While Common Core has enjoyed bipartisan support from Democrats and Republicans, opposition to Common Core has also generated strange bedfellows, mingling groups that would ordinarily clash, such as the Tea Party and teachers’ union locals. Disparate challenges to Common Core are best understood not as individual curricular challenges, but as moving pieces in a larger social movement context.
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