info@woodslane.com.au
Contact us on (02) 8445 2300
For all customer service and order enquiries

WOODSLANE

Popular Subjects

Woodslane Online Catalogues

9781421424637 Add to Cart Academic Inspection Copy

Common Core:

National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
Description
Table of
Contents
Reviews
Google
Preview

The Common Core State Standards Initiative is one of the most controversial pieces of education policy to emerge in decades. Detailing what and when KGÇô12 students should be taught, it has led to expensive reforms and displaced other valuable ways to educate children. In this nuanced and provocative book, Nicholas Tampio argues that, though national standards can raise the education bar for some students, the democratic costs outweigh the benefits.

To make his case, Tampio describes the history, philosophy, content, and controversy surrounding the Common Core standards for English language arts and math. He also explains and critiques the Next Generation Science Standards, the Advanced Placement US History curriculum framework, and the National Sexuality Education Standards. Though each set of standards has admirable elements, Tampio asserts that democracies should disperse education authority rather than entrust one political or pedagogical faction to decide the country's entire philosophy of education.

Ultimately, this lively and accessible book presents a compelling case that the greater threat to democratic education comes from centralized government control rather than local education authorities.

About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Arguments for National Education Standards
2. Arguments against National Education Standards
3. English Standards, Close Reading, and Testing
4. Math Standards, Understanding, and College and Career Readiness
5. Science Standards, Scientific Unity, and the Problem of Sustainability
6. History Standards, American Identity, and the Politics of Storytelling
7. Sexuality Standards, Gender Identity, and Religious Freedom
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index

""Common Core provides a useful reminder of how educators'together with parents, and civil society'should be engaged in a larger political process of how schools, curricula, and national standards are organized.""

Google Preview content