Educators who teach English language arts and math aren’t the only ones preparing for the Common Core. New standards affect social studies, science and other non-tested subjects as well.
Melinda Bundy used to spend February teaching King Arthur in her ninth grade English class. But because of the Common Core’s nonfiction requirement, she’s swapped legend for a unit on President John F. Kennedy.
NPR took a look at the new Common Core literature requirements this weekend. As we’ve noted before, there’s debate about how the new standards’ emphasis on nonfiction will fit into high school English classrooms. From All Things Considered: Before Common Core, students in most high school English classes read mostly literature, but the reality now [...]
English language arts teachers worried about the Common Core nonfiction requirement, take note: An architect of the new academic standards says those texts should be read in other classes, too.
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