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Originally Posted by Ohio
No more Bush's.
Hey ZNP, what you think of "common core?"
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It has had a negligible effect on the science curriculum.
Originally we had to prepare our students to write argumentative essays and the outcome was 20% of the rating for every teacher. I felt that being able to write an argumentative essay was a worthy goal but that it was unreasonable to rate every teacher on this outcome. The union agreed and starting this year the law was changed in NY. This year 50% of my rating is based on the State Regents exam at the end of the year in my subject area. I am quite happy about that as my rating on the exam will very likely be a full score (20/20) which is highly effective. Last year we had 3 teachers in my school get 18/20.
However we still have the argumentative essay as a rating for teachers who are not teaching a class that results in a State exam.
As for common core Algebra I don't know enough to say what I think.