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A 48-year-old man was under police guard in hospital today after being arrested on suspicion of knifing to death a man during a fight in a seaside town.
A violent confrontation between men in a flat in Ceylon Place, Eastbourne, East Sussex, spilled out into the street at around 9pm last night.
Witnesses saw paramedics frantically try to revive an injured man on the pavement but the 39-year-old died a short time later from his injuries.
A man arrested on suspicion of murder was also injured during the incident and was under guard at Eastbourne District General Hospital.
The victim, who has not been named, and the arrested man are believed to have known each other but neither is understood to have been living at the property.
Detectives said they were not looking for anyone else in connection with the killing. A weapon understood to have been used in the attack has been recovered.
Detective Chief Inspector Nick May, from Sussex Police's major crime branch, said they were struggling to confirm the identity of the dead man and efforts were being made to trace his next of kin.
He added that it was too early to suggest a motive for the killing, and that forensic and house-to-house inquiries continued in the road, close to Eastbourne town centre.
Mr May said: "The main incident was contained in the flat and the man did then end up on the pavement in front of the address where paramedics struggled to save him without success."
The arrested man sustained non life-threatening injuries which were not knife wounds, he added.
A post-mortem examination will be carried out later on the man who died.
Neighbour Mamadu Bakde, 32, saw paramedics try to resuscitate the dying man. He said: "He was lying on the pavement and paramedics were trying to resuscitate him.
"There was another man who was injured. He had facial injuries.
"There was a lot of police and ambulances here last night but I didn't hear any shouting or anything because I have double glazed windows.
"It is very concerning."
Some residents in the road said it had a problem with drugs and alcoholics but detectives denied suggestions the flat was a half-way house for addicts.
One neighbour, who declined to be named, said: "This isn't a safe area. I have had two drug addicts climb over my wall and I live in fear of being attacked.
"The heart is going out of the place."
Another resident, Janette Calverley, 46, who lives further down from the crime scene, said: "There are a lot of houses of multiple occupancy in this road.
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Blue tarpaulin covered the basement area of the three-storey building today as police officers checked bins, gardens and pavements as part of their investigation.
Speaking at the scene, Eastbourne Lib Dem MP Stephen Lloyd said: "Thankfully these sort of appalling crimes are extremely rare in Eastbourne and I'm sure the police are doing everything necessary to complete their inquiries."
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Combat Shock (2 Disc Uncut 25th Anniversay Edition): The Tromasterpiece Collection
Buddy Giovinazzo
Rick Giovinazzo, Veronica Stork, Mitch Maglio, Michael Tierno
US DVD: 28 Jul 2009
UK DVD: 28 Jul 2009
With time comes perspective. With time comes greater understanding and wisdom. When you're young, you don't fully appreciate subtext and thematic resonance. When you're building your own personal aesthetic, elements like context and creative boundaries are in their infancy, incapable of being readily comprehended and accepted. Back in the late '80s, a certain champion of independent cinema announced the arrival of a raw and gritty "war" film entitled Combat Shock. Best known for its hilarious horror comedy splatterfests like The Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High, adolescent fans anticipated another raucous ripper, a genre gem made up of 60% rude attitude and 40% crude arterial spray. What they got instead was a dark and deadly serious look at a Vietnam veteran at the end of his rope. The only "shocking" for these seemingly disappointed Troma geeks was the level of unfiltered truth being hurled at the camera.
For you see, Buddy Giovinazzo's urban grit masterwork remains a wholly unsettling experience. After the sudden massacre of an entire village, GI Frankie Dunlan (Buddy's brother Rick) kills a Vietnamese girl. He is captured and sent to a POW camp. There, he is tortured for information. Later, he takes up residence in a VA hospital, but is still terrified of the nightmares he has surrounding the war. Now he's an unemployed drifter, a married man with a pregnant wife and a mutant baby (the result of Frankie's exposure to Agent Orange). With street hood Paco owning his very soul, there is very little hope for the failing family. Even a phone call to his once influential dad earns Frankie nothing but bad news. With his flashbacks getting more heated and the possibility of eviction on the horizon, our hero is not sure what to do - that is, until he happens to come into possession of a handgun.
Made before Oliver Stone's apologetic Platoon and containing an entire squadron of squalor, Combat Shock - or as it was originally conceived, American Nightmare - is a brilliant, brazen denouncement of how our nation treated its returning war "heroes", and a prophetic statement of how little things would change over the next three decades. Delivering a 'day in the life' portrait of poverty and pain so devastating that it just might lead you to the same suicidal conclusions haunting its main character, this is starkness as a soiled symphony. Sure, there seems to be obvious nods to David Lynch's Eraserhead and Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver, but Buddy Giovinazzo is not paying homage. Instead, he's exploring the same urban and interpersonal horrors that stain both of those '70s classics, and doing so in a far ballsier manner than his far more famous celluloid brethren.
Combat Shock is clearly meant to be a political statement, albeit one wrapped up in the neo-realistic filth of a NYC crumbling into decay. There has never been a movie this fetid, this streaked with the stains of a million displaced and dour people. From the desolate apartment which Frankie calls home to the bombed out buildings that resemble the ruins of a defeated nation, Giovinazzo turns the Big Apple into one incredibly sour fruit. Even worse, he turns Frankie into the kind of hopeless case that no amount of government aid can help. With the constantly howling freak child in the crib and an angry, emasculating wife in his bed, our lead is less a man and more like a combination of quasi-human pieces. Held together with spit and sickness, Combat Shock ideas were always meant to be a slap in the face. Frankly, Troma fans didn't expect it to sting so badly.
And that's part of the film's mythology - and misinterpretation. Back when Uncle Lloyd and the gang were seeking ways to market their films to the widest audience possible, Giovinazzo's original 16mm American Nightmare was cut in order to conform to both ratings requirements and perceived commercial appeal. To this day, few have seen the longer version of the film and that's a shame. Presented as part of the Tromasterpiece Collection of Combat Shock, Nightmare itself is quite amazing. It's as disturbing and dark as the released take, but thanks to the added time (about ten more minutes overall), Giovinazzo has a chance to elaborate on all the possibilities he's introduced. There's more war both at home and in the battlefield, and a greater feeling of metropolitan alienation. We get more drugs, more death, more despair.
But that's not all the new two disc DVD has to offer. Giovinazzo (now an expatriate living in Germany) is joined by controversial auteur Jörg Buttgereit for a commentary track that's part trip back in time, part anecdotal evidence of Combat Shock's endearing genius. Our director has an answer and a story for everything, from the obvious allusions to one Henry Spencer to the unquestioned influence of the No Wave band Suicide (and the song "Frankie Teardrop") on the movie. Buttgereit acts more like a fanboy, reflecting on elements of the film that he simply adores. This is carried over to the second part of the package, where many famous filmmakers (including John Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer McNaughton, William Maniac Lustig, and Roy Document of the Dead Fumkes, among many others) extrapolate on how influential - and unfairly marginalized - Giovinazzo and his movie truly are.
Perhaps The Manson Family's Jim Van Bebber says it best when he describes Buddy's brother Rick as being 'Travis Bickle without all the pretense', and it's a feeling expanded upon by the brand new interviews with the men behind and in front of the camera. Looking nothing like their former selves, the Giovinazzos describe their early career as musicians (we see music videos for their band, as well as several startling short films) and speculate on how well Combat Shock holds up some 25 years later. They also explain some of the reactions they've had both then and now. Fleshing out said retrospective is a look at some of the locations. A few stand in sharp contrast to their former filthy selves. Others, sadly, have remained exactly the same (or horrifically, much worse). With trailers and the aforementioned copy of American Nightmare in tow, this is about as definitive as the digital format gets.
And we are dealing with a movie that definitely deserves it. Combat Shock may be a bad memory for anyone coming to the Troma title hoping for the standard bile, boobs, and beasts. It's definitely more like The Bicycle Thief than Bloodsucking Freaks. In fact, if you are looking for a film that tells the true story about what life was like for returning veterans in the '70s, if you want all the pain and political posturing, unresolved emotions and lingering social failings, this is the film to seek out. Somewhere in the great halls of misbegotten movies stands a pedestal waiting for Buddy Giovinazzo's Combat Shock. It's a true American original, a portrait painted in the scum, sweat, and the fears of both its subject and its supporters. Time does have a tendency to play tricks on you. It can alter even the most concrete of critical snubs. A quarter of century ago, few found this film exceptional. Today, it stands as one of the '80s independent best.
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The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards
"[A]s you grow up in this world you realize people really don't give a shit about what you feel or what you think." Thus, Common Core Standards architect David Coleman delivered [1] the core pedagogy of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to educators gathered at the New York State Department of Education in April 2011. Listen to a few more of Coleman's proclamations and you have to ask yourself if this is a man of deep experience and rectitude or just a cuckoo bird let loose on a hapless bunch of educrats who don't know how to voice dissent. Coleman was on stage one hour 59 minutes in Chancellor's Hall decreeing the new reality of teaching in public schools across America. No one in the audience challenged his bizarre declarations.
Maybe they were in a state of shock.
Brown Bear is still known to more people from ages one to one hundred than David Coleman or Arne Duncan.Or maybe the hall was silent because Coleman is billed as "a leading author and architect of the CCSS, and our professional organizations have already caved in on the Common Core — without a shot being fired. As premier standards entrepreneur, Coleman is a busy man, having already co-written the Common Core State Curriculum Standards and the Publishers' Criteria for the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Literacy [2]).
Coleman insists that teachers must train students to be workers in the Global Economy. In his words, "It is rare in a working environment that someone says, "Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday but before that I need a compelling account of your childhood." Translation to the classroom: No more primary grade essays about lost teeth or middle school essays about prepubescent angst. Instead, students must provide critical analysis of the "Allegory of the Cave" from Plato's Republic, listed as an "exemplary informational text" in the Common Core State Standards for Language Arts.[3] If that's judged as over the top for 12-year-olds, there's always Ronald Reagan's 1988 "Address to Students at Moscow State University."
As though literacy is to prepare children only for a working environment. And as though personal opinion isn't vital in a working environment.
Coleman is on a mission to slash both the amount of personal narrative in writing and the amount of fiction in reading. This is based not on any experience teaching –except at the University of London–but because, he insists, readers gain "world knowledge" through nonfiction, which he calls "informational text." Listening to Coleman evokes Kafka's The Castle: "You have been in the village a few days and already think you know everything better than everyone here." The difference is that Coleman provides no evidence that he's been in the public school village even a few days.
Standardisto David Coleman (above) doesn't give a shit about what children have long enjoyed about reading fiction and poetry, since he wants to make schools a Boot Camp for the global economy via the "Common Core Standards" he is helping the U.S. Department of Education push like crack cocaine across the USA. Ironically, schools like Sidwell Friends in Washington, D.C. (where the children of Barack Obama go to school) and the University of Chicago Lab School (where the children of former White House Chief of Staff and now Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel go to school) reject straight jackets like the "Common Core" and promote the reading of children, young adult, and real literature.Skeptics who might doubt that replacing Brown Bear, Brown Bear with a Wikipedia entry on Ursus arctos will stave off our nation's economic woes might wonder: Why, if fiction is no more vital than leftover turnips, is there a Nobel Prize in Literature and not in lawyers' briefs or material from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Web site (listed as a Common Core exemplary text). For more on the prescribed informational text, the reader is advised to do what not more than fourscore in the country have done: Read Appendixes A and B of the Common Core State Curriculum Standards. Surely Appendix A will frost your toes (http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_A.pdf) and then Appendix B will freeze your heart.
David Coleman and his Common Core Standards cohorts decree that once teens get through Ovid's Metamorphoses, they can move on to an article from Scientific American about the Higgs boson. (English/Language Arts Literacy Examples ELA-1 and ELA–2: Focused Literacy, Extended Constructed Response Type, p. 684 (http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_B.pdf)
Text That Informs
Here's how Michael Dirda opens his new book [4] On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling
Graham Greene famously observed that only in childhood do books have any deep influence on our lives
How many adults first learned about moral complexity from the final chapter of Beverly Cleary's Henry Higgins,
when the dog Ribsy must choose between two equally kind masters?
Who, at any age, can read unmoved the last pages of Tarzan of the Apes when the rightful Lord Greystoke, deliberating sacrificing his own hope for happiness, quietly says, "My mother was an ape. . . I never knew who my father was."
In her New York Times Magazine blog,[v] Ilene Silverman writes of her three favorite books as a teenager: The Chocolate War, Separate Peace, and My Darling My Hamburger. For the teen Silverman, these novels were filled with informational text, providing important information about the world.
Boo Radley and Scout from the movie version of the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird." Millions of readers — and viewers — have been brought to tears by the words "Hey, Boo..." which will soon be banned by Common Core. The power of the lines can only be understood in the context of the power of the novel, but Common Core's David Coleman wants to ban imaginative literature in favor of a Power Point version of reality promoted by the likes of Bill Gates and Arne Duncan — for other peoples' children, while theirs get everything.Interviewed for the film Hey, Boo: Harper Lee and to Kill a Mockingbird, in which a range of people—from Roseanne Cash to Tom Brokow– talk about the important world knowledge gained from reading Harper Lee's novel. Ph.D. Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo says, "Masterpieces tap into something essential to us—at the heart of who we are and how we love." James Patterson says, "You're suspecting something about Boo — which should tell you something about yourself."
Of course David Coleman insists we're supposed to convince students that nobody gives a shit about how they feel or their need to find out something about themselves.
Writing in The New Yorker, Louis Menand says[vi], "When I read a poem I relate it to all the other poems I have read. . . past poems condition my response to any new poem. And the really new poem conditions my response to all the poems that precede it. After "Prufrock," the Inferno is, ever so slightly, a different poem. Thus text informs text backwards and forwards. Sarah Bakewell says the same thing in How To Live: A Life of Montaigne,[vii] insisting that readers approach Montaigne "from their private perspectives, contributing their own experience of life. . . a two-person encounter between writer and reader."
Michelle Obama reads "Brown Bear" to children. The Obama daughters attend Sidwell Friends, a private school in Washington D.C. that prides itself on a full curriculum, including children's literature, art and music. Common Core, promoted by Barack Obama's Education Department, would deprive most working class children in America's public schools of the same experience.In his introduction to Poet's Choice[viii], MacArthur Fellowship winner and award-winning poet Edward Hirsch advises that biographical, literary, and historical info provides readers a context for their reading. The teacher decides which kind of information is most relevant for each work. The reader decides too.
But in presenting his notion of a model lesson for teaching Martin Luther King Jr's "Letter to a Birmingham Jail," David Coleman snidely rejects out of hand such approaches as providing any biographical, cultural, or historical context for the letter — just as he rejects reader response theory which focuses on the reader as an active agent in the work's meaning. Instead, Coleman champions what amounts to New Criticism on steroids, insisting that the reader's sole focus must be only on the words in the text
Although a multitude of expert readers show that the emperor of the Common Core Standards is naked, as long as such professional organizations as the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the International Reading Association (IRA) remain silent, David Coleman seems safe in shouting his absurd declarations from the rooftops. Instead of offering any informed resistance, NCTE and IRA are occupied with figuring out how they can make money from embracing the Common Core — and staving off dissidents in their own ranks. Last year, NCTE resorted to technical excuses for squashing a proposed resolution against the Common Core.
Bill Gates recently at Davos, where the one percent discuss how to rule the world.But the resolution proposers are back: See Resolution Sent to NCTE (http://susanohanian.org/show_yahoo.php?id=699).
Money Talks, Money Legislates, Money Delivers Classroom Lessons
The Common Core State Standards exist because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wanted them. To help their aide-de-camps, the president and the U. S. Secretary of Education, pretend that these are state and not national standards, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sent buckets of money to the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers to act as sponsors. More tons of money to the National PTA to spread the good word and so on. As I revealed in an article in Extra![ix] very few media have pointed to the money source. Of course very few media even bother to mention anything about the Common Core.
I'd like to introduce David Coleman, Bill Gates, Arne Duncan — and all the rest of the Standardistos — to Chris, who found handwriting very difficult but insisted on laboriously copying out Beatrix Potter's Tale of Squirrel Nutkin in his notebook. Every word. Dougie asked him, "Why are you doing this? Miz O gave us all our own copy of the book." And Chris answered, "I know. I just like the way the words feel." This from a boy who entered third grade loudly complaining about how much he hated both reading and writing. This is the boy who ended the year exchanging letters with his favorite poet, Jack Prelutsky. I'd like to introduce this motley school deform crew to Chris' classmate Leslie, who contacted me 25 years later, to talk about the importance of Amelia Bedelia in her life.
This Common Core den of thieves who are stealing the literary rights of our students should read Arnold Lobel's lovely little fable, "The Crocodile in the Bedroom."[x] A crocodile who loved the neat and tidy rows of the flowers on the wallpaper in his bedroom was coaxed outside into the garden by his wife, who invited him to smell the roses and the lilies of the valley. The crocodile couldn't stand the "terrible tangle" of freely growing flowers, and went to bed, preferring to stare at neat and tidy wallpaper. There, "he turned a very pale and sickly shade of green."
With David Coleman as their spokesman out on the stump, the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the U. S. Department of Education, acting in concert with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, prescribe a very pale, sickly shade of green future for our vibrant and deliciously messy classrooms. Certainly, Lobel's moral, Without a doubt, there is such a thing as too much order, applies even more to the classroom than it does to wallpaper. And letting our corporate school reformers steamroll our schools into a neat and tidy standardized product puts our children in great peril.
Will it soon change from "...goodnight comb and goodnight brush, and a quiet old lady whispering 'Hush'..." to The Department of Education orders you "Hush..." [1] David Coleman, "Bringing the Common Core to Life", New York State Department of Education, April 28, 2011
[2] David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, "Publishers' Criteria for the Common Core State Standards
in English Language Arts and Literacy, Grades K–2" http://www.edweek.org/media/k-2-criteria-blog.pdf
[3] National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, "Common Core State Standards," http://corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf
[4] Michael Dirda, On Conan Doyle: Or, The Whole Art of Storytelling, Princeton University Press, 2011
[v] Ilene Silverman, "The 6th Floor, New York Times Magazine blog, Sept. 21, 2011
[vi] Louis Menand, "A Critic at Large," The New Yorker, Sept. 19, 2011, 81
[vii] Sarah Bakewell, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, Other Press 2010, 9
[viii] Edward Hirsch, Poet's Choice, Harcourt Inc. 2006
[ix] Susan Ohanian, "'Race to the Top' and the Bill Gates Connection," Extra! September 2010 http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=4147
[x] Arnold Lobel, "Crocodile in the Bedroom," Fables, HarperCollins 1980
By: Leonie Haimson
Coleman's speech
where does he say "[A]s you grow up in this world you realize people really don't give a shit about what you feel or what you think."
Can't find it in the transcript and can't bear to listen through whole video. thanks,
By: Susan Ohanian
Answer to where to find Coleman remarks
At the url below you'll fine a transcript of the pertinent part of Colman's 2-hour speech on how New Criticism on steroids will work in everybody's classroom:
By: Yvonne Siu-Runyan
Ohanian article is revealing...
WOW! This is revealing.
By: Tracey Douglas
The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards
How about I don't give a sh!t about what Coleman thinks or feels?
By: Stephanie Dingman
Ohanian is right on...
Once again, Susan Ohanian tells it like it REALLY is!!
By: Beth Doolittle
Coelman's views
As a middle school librarian, all I can say is the last 6 years of my teaching career are going to feel longer than the preceding 31. We have always had students read historical fiction in ELA that is tied to the period being studied in Social Studies. And the last 2 years we have had a Holocaust survivor as a guest, to help students understand that period. But since no one cares about feelings, I guess SHE won't be invited back!
By: Kevin Kellis
Common Core
Yes, it does scare me when few people are in control of what is taught in the classroom. Especially when those people have little experience in the classroom. However, these standards are what IS best for learning. I think that Susan Ohanian is over-reacting to the suggestion that there be a "balance" of fiction and informational texts. There should be a balance. Before we all knee-jerk react to another mandate forced onto our schools (and we have had many), let's take some time to really analyze the common core and realize what is embedded in its standards.
By: Diane Kepus
Trash CCS and RTTT
This is nothing but a build up for the Gates and all other's like them to educate our children in preparing for the New World Order and at the same time blame teacher's for the failure of the Education System. I am not a teacher nor have I ever been one, but common sense and a whole heck of a lot of research will back up what I am saying.
My suggestion - is throw the CCS and RTTT in the trash and ask for and receive the CCS from Texas which has been rated the highest in the country (by a comparison report paid for by Gates)and it will be given to you freely. They had the initial English and Science done and now they have just completed the Math. It's free and written by educators for educator's and those they are teaching. No unions involved, no Bill Gate's funding - just educators!
By: Dea Conrad-Curry
Don't throw the baby out with the bath water
I personally heard David Coleman deliver the now infamous line: "...people really don't give a shit about what you feel...." Perhaps the room fell quite because he said what many people already know. On the whole, people don't give a shit how you feel about a text or piece of knowledge or a skill. However, teachers are smarter than David Coleman when it comes to doing the job they are trained and experienced at doing...one that Coleman has never held — teaching juveniles and adolescents. I agree with many that there are issues incumbent to the way the Common Core Standards were written, by whom they were written, and how that work was funded. However, what teachers need to do is deconstruct those standards to understand that even if David Coleman doesn't give a shit about what young people think or feel, embedded in his own writing of the standards are opportunities to inquire about personal reflection and experience. Standard 1 at grade 2 reads: "Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in a text." The same standard at grade 5 reads: "Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text." The grade 2 standard allows for questions and reflections both about the reader's personal feeling: What emotion does the text evoke in a reader and how does the author evoke emotion in the reader? The grade 5 standard based in inference requires that the reader think on their own, make a connection, and provide an inference that comes from how the mind puts literally stated or implied ideas together. Inferences are not made by the text. I'm not defending David Coleman. He is a big boy who chooses his own words. Perhaps he should be more thoughtful and consider the implications of his words. However, what I am proposing...or more strongly, what I am pleading with educators to do is to read the standards and determine what they mean for their instruction, their content, their students, and their schools. Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
By: Thomas Armstrong
Fascist Education Now Coming to a School Near You
My hat goes off to Susan Ohanian for this eye-opening piece. If we're going to be the good text-dependent readers that David Coleman wants, then we ought to begin by engaging in a close reading of his common core standards, and the articles and speeches he has made about it. We might begin by examining Coleman's use of the word "shit" in the text of his speech, for example, and engage in a hermeneutic exploration of the diverse range of conclusions and inferences that might be made from it. Charles Dickens is rolling over in his grave somewhere.
By: M. G. Crawford
Did the author even READ the standards?
The author of this commentary illustrates a key point of the Common Core: Students have to be taught to cite evidence from the text to support their ideas, not just spout feelings. Had the author actually read the standards and the appendices, she would have seen that the Common Core is about balance. It isn't banning literature and reflective writing; it's attempting to give kids a fuller education by ensuring that they read and write well-crafted informational texts as well as the genres that are currently overemphasized. Most laughable is the notion that To Kill a Mockingbird would be banned: It, along with much other beloved fiction and poetry, appears on the text exemplar list. It's fine to voice legitimate objections to the Common Core, but this inflammatory piece isn't even factual.
By: S. Badiner
Standards Read...
Yes, I do believe the author "Read" the standards... the point being made is that, when looking at the major focus of the CCS, there is an overwhelming emphasis on "informational text." Knowing that--at the secondary level--many students have between 12-18 weeks in a course, it is not possible to study a novel while still emphasizing all the informational texts and skills that go along with them.
By: Chris Walker
Check your sources
Footnote 3 is an invalid citation. The "Allegory of the Cave" is not listed an an exemplar text in the document you cited, nor is the Ronald Reagan speech. You are totally misrepresenting these standards and taking most of what Mr. Coleman is saying completely out of context. This is an egregious and erroneous example of reporting.
By: Bob Busch
The City
Happy Birthday Chicago 175 years old and still going.
By: Susan Ohanian
Crocodile comment by Chris Walker
Although technically you are correct about the footnote, I think YOU are trying to mislead the readers by carefully stating that the items cited don't appear in the document cited. But they did--and do--exist as Common Core Exemplary Text. The draft document of Common Core included "Allegory of the Cave." I guess it got laughed out of the water and they removed it, as they removed Wordsworth's Preface to Ballads.
Appendix B Text Exemplars and
Sample Performance Tasks, p. 128 includes Exemplar Text Reagan's 1988 speech at Moscow State.
Somehow, I don't think a footnote error invalidates the points I make in the piece. I stand behind them--as a teacher and as a reporter.
By: Tom Fiala
Looking beyond the Crocodile comment by Chris Walker
It would probaly behoove us to ignore the Chris comment. Let us all just look at what the current exemplars consist of. Ohanian is right on! It is also particularly laughable when we see youtubes of Coleman presenting what seem to be examples (see below) of how a person might go about teaching the exemplars. It would be wonderful to be able to teach in this way, and have the normal high school student sitting like Ann of Green Gables absorbing the wisdom of the teacher. Maybe he is just explaining what should happen in a classroom, but does not have the ability or "stones" to actually teach in a public school classroom. see:
If this link does not work - google Coleman, common core, martin luther king.
By: Richard Kogen
David Coleman
Who can argue with high expectations? It is an effective platform because whatever is done in the name of higher outcomes has to be good right? I support this blog because it creates a space for people to question something that is being taken as the great solution to the "crisis" we always seem to be having in education.
By: Chrstine Kepler
Wonderment and confusion and this article
I am the oldest child of twelve. Same mother, same father (!) Grew up poor, poor, poor! Mother HS education, father, eighth grade. I was lucky that Mom loved to read. We drew on the backs of grocery bags, knew fairy tales, and I received my first cookbook at age six. (It was a necessity!) No library in our little town, but I became a reader through the "free time" browsing in my elementary classrooms. My greatest joy was when the teacher told us we could read. I read secretly during class- basal on the desk-my book in my lap. Was it a manifesto? A politician's speech? No, it was Dr. Seuss, Christina Rossetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Johanna Spyri, and later, Pearl S. Buck. Primary factors in this? Availability of books, a kindly first grade teacher who was also a librarian, and, get this! Literary imagination! I currently hold a permanent Ohio teaching certificate, a reading endorsement, a MAT degree, AND, at 58 years old, I am back in school pursuing a second Master's degree in reading curriculum and instruction. Do I read nonfiction? Of course! I read everything including toilet paper packages, nutritional guides on food packaging, cereal boxes, and articles like this one. I, following the advice of Lucy Calkins, choose to accept the CCSS as if they are gold. Yes, there are areas - like this article and the secrecy regarding the authors the and money behind the CCSS - that anger me. But, I think there needs to be increased rigor in how we educate our students. While Ohio is one of the states adopting the CCSS and I am thereby mandated to use them as the basis to measure growth of my students and use them as guidelines for what I teach, I don't think they are expecting much ore of me or my students than I already expect. Back to the point? I learned to love reading through good (and bad) literature. Not informational text.
By: Lauri Jon Caravella
Common Core not for Obama's Daughters... but good for your kid...
I am suspicious of anything people in power say my child should have but don't sign their children up for. Why isn't Obama's daughter's private school instituting Common Core Standards if it's the Bees knees? When my daughter's public school said the whole state of California is going Common Core I didn't think twice... but now I'm discovering articles that are making me investigate just what is Common Core? Is it really the best education? And if the answer to that is yes, well, then, why wouldn't Obama take his daughters out of that expensive private school and put them in their local public school teaching Common Core Standards? And if you need help answering that question... well...
By: Ron Nelson
Do you know Kelly Gallagher?
Perhaps you should. He gave a presentation regarding this very subject. The fact is Mr. Coleman is anti-narrative. According to the CCSS, the amount of narrative reading in language arts goes from 55% to about 30% from 3rd to 12th grade. This fact cannot be denied.
Limited exposure to literature will lead us to be the next great power lacking creativity and civility. Look up Kelly Gallagher. Listen to the man.
By: Frederick Miller
What's best for our Students
I entered the world of Education at a much later age than many of my peers. An accountant through my 20s & 30s, I hit the point where I needed to do something that "meant something". I grew up with a love for history, more specifically for American history and this is where I gravitated towards as I entered into the world of being an educator.
I am now in my 2nd full year teaching US/AZ History, Government, Criminal Justice, and Sociology at a small charter school in Phoenix, AZ.
We hit the ground running with Common Core last year, not 100%, but about 50/50 as we got our feet wet making sure we knew what we were doing going forward.
Now, I'm not an English teacher, but I was taught to read by my father at the age of 3. I LOVE to read fiction. In high school, I read practically a novel per week. I attacked books and placed myself into them as the main character and lived a separate life in various cities, states, nations, worlds, and time frames. Reading is very important to me and I take my high school students to task when they tell me they don't like to read or have the time to read.
With that said, I have found that utilizing the Common Core standards and the Informational Texts in my History classroom, the students respond. Last year, as I said, we did not do 100% CC, but we did disect the Declaration of Independence, Washington's Farewell Address, Jackson's 1st Inaugural Speech, the Gettysburg Address, Wilson's 14 Points, Roosevelt's Day of Infamy speech, Kennedy's Inaugural Address, MLK's Letters from Birmingham and I have a Dream, and finally, Bush's Response to the Terrorist attacks of 9/11 & Obama's 1st Inaugural speech.
And what did my students get out of this? A higher vocabulary, an academic question & answer methodology, and something even more important ... 90% of my students have a low socio-economic lifestyle. But as they attacked these documents as I used to attack fiction, they found that they could DO what the Common Core is asking them to do. And they did it WELL. The look on their face when they not only answered a question most of my college colleagues could not answer, but then follow it with an academic question of their own was priceless. Their face said, "Did I just answer that question ... and did I just follow it up with a question that has words in it I had no clue existed three months ago?" And the answer to that was YES and they were praised and they achieved success.
Isn't that the basic core of being an Educator? Insuring our students a chance for Success? And whether it's the old State Standards or the New Common Core State Standards or going back to using the Bible to teach our kids to read as they did in classrooms in 17th & 18th century America ... the bottom line is this - we are Teachers. So we teach.
We do our best. We do it well. And we graduate those that will lead our great nation in the future ...
I will honestly say that I've not looked at the English side of the Common Core House to realize what texts it approves or not. But I do know from speaking to the English teachers here at my school, To Kill a Mockingbird was read last year and it will be read again this year, as well as informational texts and as well as other novels.
Give our kids a chance for success and they will take it. It's what we make of what we have ... or as Teddy Roosevelt once said, "Do what you can, where you are, with what you have." Who am I to argue with the man that delivered a speech even as he was shot?
We're Educators. Go Educate.
By: Karen Bracken
The Angry Men of America
It is very apparent that like our President, David Coleman is a miserably unhappy angry man. It sounds to me like he had a miserable childhood (what I read about his mother it is understandable) and now wants to make childhood miserable for every child in the world. People like Coleman should be placed in institutions where they can live out their fantasies and hurt no one but themselves.
By: Kathy Jacobs
Common Core
George, you should reprint this article by Susan Ohanian (or ask her if she wants to do an update). Too many commentators think Common Core is such a good thing because "it's just a group of standards for the whole country." And who could object to that? �The Crocodile in the Common Core Standards� Susan Ohanian - October 19, 2011


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