Reblogged from Bridge by Ron Koehler
The new session of the Michigan Legislature started recently and it didn’t take long for populist priorities to start flowing. Eliminate the income tax. Eliminate prevailing wage laws. Eliminate the Common Core, er, the Michigan Content Standards.
Ron Koehler is assistant superintendent of the Kent Intermediate School District.
Why eliminate the Michigan Content Standards, which guide the work of teachers and student learning? Because they’re too much like the Common Core state standards which, among some, are akin to Lord Voldemort, or “he who must not be named” of Harry Potter fame.
Why? Because the Common Core standards represent “federal” standards, except they don’t, because they were adopted by the Council of Chief School Officers and individual states.
In any event, it’s unpopular these days to confuse the truth with facts. So the Michigan standards must go.
In their place, Rep. Gary Glenn of Midland would have us call up the Massachusetts standards of 2009, paste them into a Microsoft Word document, go to the “Find” tab and replace all references to Massachusetts with Michigan.
Yep, that’s it. Got standards!