What ASCI Has to Say About Common Core and Links to the Actual Alabama Common Core Standards

This blog has information concerning the Common Core. There are several different points of view sited.

Article from Association of Christian School International
http://pubs.royle.com/article/Christian+Schools+and+the+Common+Core/1497092/173903/article.html

http://www.williamsburgchristian.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/ACSI_Position_on_Common_Core_State_Standards.pdf

CSE - Christian School Educator is published by ACSI Vol.17

This publication is printed by ACSI Association of Christian Schools. It has several articles explain the Christian school perspective on using the Common Core.

Click on the link below to open the complete magazine.

http://cdn.coverstand.com/28626/173903/0d0d4fa4bbc497fd5dbcd6f91316e21b50bf614f.2.pdf  

ALABAMA PUBLIC SCHOOL STATE STANDARDS

Below are the English Language Arts and Math "Common Core" documents used in Alabama. Alabama has added additional standards to the "Common Core" and choose to call their standards the Alabama College and Career Ready Standards. The additional standards added by Alabama are noted with a map of the state of Alabama along side the standard in the documents below.

Example of a standard Alabama added: The original Common Core document doesn't include cursive handwriting. Alabama added this standard to third grade.

IF you have always wanted to read the Common Core for yourself or have always wanted to know what public schools in Alabama set for their standards or have heard others talking about the Common Core that may or may not have read the actual documents.......Here's your chance to read them and form your own opinion. 

Be sure to look at the grade level  documents. These documents are very helpful in knowing what children are expected to know and be able to do grade by grade. It puts the focus on what students are learning not just that it was taught.

English Language Arts Outcomes/Standards

For standard view click below

http://alex.state.al.us/staticfiles/2015_Alabama_English_Language_Arts_Course_of_Study.pdf

For grade level view click below

http://alex.state.al.us/ccrs/sites/alex.state.al.us.ccrs/files/Anchor_Standards.pdf

Math Outcomes/Standards

For standard view click below

http://alex.state.al.us/staticfiles/2015_Alabama_Mathematics_Course_of_Study.pdf

For grade level view click below

http://achievethecore.org/category/774/mathematics-focus-by-grade-level

This document wasn't developed in Alabama. It is however, used as a tool for seeing how logical mathematical knowledge is developed over multiple grade levels

Read more on Common Core

Top 10 Parents Need to Know About the Common Core

Click Below

http://marylandpublicschools.org/w/Top10CCSSParents.pdf

Parents and the Common Core: A Conversation with

National PTA President Otha Thornton -
Click Below
http://www.learningfirst.org/parents-and-common-core-conversation-national-pta-president-otha-thornton