2010 National Teacher of the Year Sarah Brown Wessling fires back at a series of essays that appeared on The Answer Sheet criticizing the Common Core. She defends new national academic standards not as a shared curriculum, but as a mission statement for good teaching:
When I look at the standards, I don’t see a document that tells me what to teach or gives me a curriculum; rather, I see an underlying organization that gives us collective purpose. It’s not the standards themselves that are dangerous, it’s the way in which they may get misinterpreted or implemented in checkbox kinds of ways that could create unintended consequences.
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