tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post7161192692781746010..comments2024-03-28T08:55:53.818-04:00Comments on Perdido Street School: NY Times Doesn't Get That Full Literary Works Aren't Read In English Class Anymorereality-based educatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01712885202661371924noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-9549668452235003322015-06-22T10:37:22.503-04:002015-06-22T10:37:22.503-04:00Again it speaks to the point that Common Core is i...Again it speaks to the point that Common Core is intends to create unstimulated drones who will comply with the arbitrary displays of power inflicted on them by their corporate employers. No imagination, curiosity, critical thinking and definitely no backtalk. This thing is beyond evil. If I could punch Coleman's smug teeth in I would. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08125018774502675730noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-38069445882804588042015-06-21T15:37:29.211-04:002015-06-21T15:37:29.211-04:00Just imagine if newspapers published such letters!...Just imagine if newspapers published such letters!laMissyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00516322307725011313noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-1914604742967561202015-06-21T11:09:35.340-04:002015-06-21T11:09:35.340-04:00The goal is to get rid of union teachers with bene...The goal is to get rid of union teachers with benefits. The programs are meant to keep you working till 9 o'clock at night, planning. And once you make some headway, your grade is changed, your room is changed, and then a new program will be brought in and you'll have to throw out all the work you did. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-16016423156611523132015-06-21T10:50:39.379-04:002015-06-21T10:50:39.379-04:00The goal is to be able to put any warm body who &q...The goal is to be able to put any warm body who "wants to make a difference" in front of the kids to read from a script (and not a very good one at that). G-d help the students of the NYC public school system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-35778013615898972492015-06-20T21:40:21.670-04:002015-06-20T21:40:21.670-04:00I am using the scripts of the Engage NY common cor...I am using the scripts of the Engage NY common core modules because I have been directly ordered to do so. They are low-quality, poorly written and full of editing errors.Massive amounts of photocopying are required. Hardly any technology is used. All six pages of worksheets in one lesson were numbered "p. 11." Sometimes the heading had the wrong book title on it. The second half of each unit has the same homework every night ("Read two chapters and take notes"), and it isn't referred to in the next day's class. My students rebelled and I am miserable. I used to believe that what I was doing made a difference. Now I believe that what I am doing is educationally unsound and morally wrong.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-53009673074434518412015-06-20T18:46:31.809-04:002015-06-20T18:46:31.809-04:00I think the goal is to replace teachers. Short, p...I think the goal is to replace teachers. Short, pithy passages are conducive to online learning. Full length novels are not.<br /><br />Also, it would seem "close reading" encourages mindless acceptance of propaganda. For instance, if the New York Times tells you some BS, and you've never been encouraged to evaluate text as it relates to your lived experience, then you would be very pliable to said BS from the NYT.<br /><br />"Close reading" is not critical thinking. It is the opposite.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-46055714508667611642015-06-20T12:59:43.097-04:002015-06-20T12:59:43.097-04:00Good informational texts, not merely textbooks, ou...Good informational texts, not merely textbooks, ought to be part of the science and social studies curricula. There is no sound reason to pressure English teachers to sacrifice great literature or book-length works unless there is some underlying philosophy that academic disciplines are not so important in the era of common core. If common core means that all disciplines have a responsibility to teach these close reading skills from rich discipline-based texts then students would easily be reading more nonfiction than fiction. Why has the testing regime been crafted to place inordinate emphasis on a minority of secondary teachers who teach English?Eric Sundberghttp://www.ericsundberg.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-51427077262410287172015-06-20T12:52:50.933-04:002015-06-20T12:52:50.933-04:00Just think if every teacher wrote a letter to the ...Just think if every teacher wrote a letter to the editor of his or her local newspaper and told exactly what was going on in his or her class with Common Core. People would be amazed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-35780021223376072502015-06-20T12:48:38.612-04:002015-06-20T12:48:38.612-04:00Not only that, but listen to THIS ridiculousness. ...Not only that, but listen to THIS ridiculousness. At my husband's school (he's an English teacher), ALL kids - that's grades 9-12 read "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" and it took them OVER 2 MONTHS to read because they went over and over and reread every little word. Every kid in the school was reading it. Eye glazed over. Good students were forced to read passages over and over and dissect every line. They finally just said to hell with it. That's the way to encourage a love of learning!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-8610487592826364282015-06-20T12:44:26.037-04:002015-06-20T12:44:26.037-04:00My high school son read a total of one novel (The ...My high school son read a total of one novel (The Great Gatsby) at the end of his junior year, and no novels his sophomore year. No poetry either. His English classes were mostly informational text and argumentative writing. He has a very high reading level and loves to read, but he was so bored in English that his grade plummeted. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-49743052685818516182015-06-20T12:38:57.041-04:002015-06-20T12:38:57.041-04:00My daughter just finished middle school. She read...My daughter just finished middle school. She read two books in three years and has not done any narrative writing. They weren't even good books, and they spent five months reading each one. Where is the rigor in that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1628172601886929098.post-69696659795236350982015-06-20T11:54:37.617-04:002015-06-20T11:54:37.617-04:00And, of course, fiction never covers "real wo...And, of course, fiction never covers "real world" issues because it's totally fabricated nonsense based on nothing whatsoever. Thank goodness we have NY Times writers ready and willing to share their brilliant insights with us. NYC Educatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12188066345722781723noreply@blogger.com