As a teacher educator, I had the troubling experience last night when my students and I looked over the Common Core Standards and the PA State Standards together. It was the opposite of the glorious moments when someone reads or encounters something for the first time; instead it was a “we have to actually pay attention to this stuff? Really?” moment…

I went looking to collect the smart things I’ve read about standards and will continue to add them to this entry…

Joanne Yatvin (hero of the minority report, a scathing dissent on the NRP) going point by point through the ELA standards.

Mercedes Schneider has done the legwork on who is paying for the CCS in several lengthy and well-documented blog posts.

Diane Ravitch’s speech here is very well-done and does offer significant context for the CCS. Still, (this remains unforgivable.)