EdWeek just woke me up with an admission. Chester Finn, the thought leader from Fordham who praised NAEP for rejecting sociocultural reading science (21st Century SoR) in favor of alone-on-a-desert-island brainiac reading, has admitted it: Common Core missed the point. Common Core is incoherent.
From today’s article—
A question: Did the Core really “get” the skills students should have? Talk to me.