LETTERS

Common core, or common sense?

Posted 11/24/15

To the Editor:

On the front page of the Warwick Beacon (Thursday, Nov. 19), I starting reading the article by Kelcy Dolan entitled “Low PARCC test scores shock schools.”

 Much to my …

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LETTERS

Common core, or common sense?

Posted

To the Editor:

On the front page of the Warwick Beacon (Thursday, Nov. 19), I starting reading the article by Kelcy Dolan entitled “Low PARCC test scores shock schools.”

 Much to my surprise when I turned to page 22 to continue reading the article, I saw three charts with percentages of students falling within a certain level and within these charts were keys to describe Levels 1 through 5.  One would think intuitively by using common sense, that Level 1 would be students who did well, and Level 5 would be students who did poorly, but the keys showed the following:

 Level 1 = Did Not Yet Meet Expectations

To Level 5 = Exceeded Expectations

 Seems like a small detail, but if the people who are creating these charts don’t follow a common sense method, are students being taught with the same methodology? How are they supposed to learn how to follow similar charts that may be presented to them in school/home work? Is this what Common Core is teaching? What else are they being taught that doesn’t follow a common sense method?

 A slippery slope starts with a small patch!

 

Jerry Ferreira

Warwick

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