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All true, but as weve discussed before CCS and TEKS are just lists
of objectives, and they are very nearly congruent. Second, as long
as it doesn't have "COMMON CORE STANDARDS" stenciled across it,
does it make a difference if the Pythagorean theorem chart has was
TEKS or CCS developed? Third, its hard to avoid CCS now. Texas and
Cali. use to drive development because they had the numbers now
the majority of publishers and developers are working on CCS
because thats were the demand and drive is.

On 10/25/14, muinteoir wrote:
> Just FYI ----
>
> The Common Core State Standards are illegal in Texas.
>
> The 83rd Texas Legislature passed House Bill 462 (HB 462),
> which contains several important prohibitions relating to
> curriculum standards. The bill:
>
> 1. prohibits the State Board of Education (SBOE) from
> adopting Common Core State Standards;
>
> 2. prohibits school districts from using Common Core State
> Standards to meet the requirements to provide instruction in
> the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS);
>
> 3. prohibits a school district or open enrollment charter
> school from being required to offer the Common Core;
>
> 4. prohibits the Texas Education Agency from adopting or
> developing assessments based on Common Core State Standards.
>
> www.legis.state.tx.us/tlodocs/83R/billtext/pdf/HB00462F.pdf#n
> avpanes=0.
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> On 10/25/14, jump in against the scamS wrote:
>> Plenty of people told admins and teacher organizations that
>> CSCOPE was a scam. They knew it. They brought it into the
>> schools to build their own power. CSCOPE is just the twin
>> sister of Common Core...and that is called Fed Led Ed. You
>> don't like having the feds control every breath you take
> but
>> yet most teachers can't run to the polls fast enough to
> pull
>> the lever for the very candidates that TFT and other orgs
> are
>> pushing at us. In the end, the administrators who are now
>> being used as patsies to set up a system where our schools
> are
>> sold out...they are going to suffer the same fate as the
>> teachers. They will be useless within the new system where
>> administrators are already being trained to takeover
> schools.
>>
>> Since you are retired I have a suggestion to make. Share
> your
>> knowledge and experience to join into the growing political
>> backlash against Common Core in Texas schools. I see
> teachers
>> who are "retiring" (getting so burnt out that they pack up
> and
>> leave) and they allow the system to beat them up.
> Experienced
>> teachers, such as yourself, who know how the classroom is
>> supposed to run when teachers have autonomy are needed in
> the
>> behind-the-scenes pushback movement. Do a search for Texas
> Opt
>> Out and you will read about the brewing firestorm. Jump in.
>> We need you because you are honest and willing to speak
> out.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 10/24/14, shill wrote:
>>> I DO agree that C-Scope really WASN'T for MY classroom,
> but
>>> I could tell THAT after USING it the first year without
>>> anyone having to inform me on some chat board. In fact,
>>> that's EXACTLY why I quit using it! It wasn't fit for ANY
>>> classroom as far as I am concerned. However I wish someone
>>> had told ADMINISTRATION that when C-Scope leased their
>>> product to them and subsequently when admin forced it down
>>> all of the teachers' throats. Also, I don't remember
> saying
>>> that my students and district were so wonderful. Some
>>> students were, some weren't, probably like most districts.
> I
>>> DO know that districts want higher test scores and that
> many
>>> of them will glom onto anything that they think will help
>>> them get them....including scams like C-Scope. If I was
>>> doing something wrong, then it was the responsibility of
>>> administration to tell me exactly WHAT that was, and maybe
> I
>>> could have corrected it. I repeat, C-Scope = scam.

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