Perfectly Incorrect Quotes

“Some of the worst items in math suffer from forcing students to overanalyze process verses simply perform. In sports, are gymnasts rated on their ability to write about, speak about, or draw a diagram of their routines, or are they rated on their actual performance of the routine?”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Even more so than learning to read, learning mathematics particularly requires that mastery of basic skills and knowledge occur first.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Dr. James Milgram, an actual mathematician from Stanford University who was on the original Common Core math committee in the summer of 2009. Once he saw what the final product was, he refused to sign the document. Since then, he has widely criticized Common Core math.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“As any parent, teacher, or psychologist will tell you, learning is substantially impacted when anxiety and stress are present. (longer answer coming). Understanding”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Common Core math standards seem unaware that children are not miniaturized adults, who are absolutely incapable of certain kinds of cognition. For example, genuine abstract thinking does not begin until age 11.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Common Core is rife with developmentally inappropriate cognitive tasks at K-6 levels – and especially at the K-3 level.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“backwards.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“those who do read fiction are better able to understand the emotions of others.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“the researchers found that people who strongly identified with a fictional character who overcame obstacles to vote were significantly more likely to vote in a real election several days later.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“When you “lose yourself” inside the world of a fictional character while reading a story, you may actually end up changing your own behavior and thoughts to match that of the character, a new study suggests. Researchers”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“The novel, of course, is an unequaled medium for the exploration of human social and emotional life. And there is evidence that just as the brain responds to depictions of smells and textures and movements as if they were the real thing, so it treats the interactions among fictional characters as something like real-life social encounters. Raymond”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Reading great literature, it has long been averred, enlarges and improves us as human beings,” wrote Paul. “Brain science shows this claim is truer than we imagined.” Brain”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Yep. I’m forced to test my 1st graders on tests where they are expected to do a close reading of a passage and answer complex, text-evidenced questions all because of David Coleman and CCSS.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“But teaching students to ask that question, independent of subject matter knowledge, won’t do much good.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“it is impossible to have any deep understanding of Lincoln’s speech without thinking about the context of the speech: a memorial service.) Here”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Such pedagogy makes school wildly boring.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Another problem we found relates to the pedagogical method used in the Gettysburg Address exemplar that the Common Core calls “cold reading.” This gives students a text they have never seen and asks them to read it with no preliminary introduction. This mimics the conditions of a standardized test on which students are asked to read material they have never seen and answer multiple choice questions about the passage.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“I was struck by how out of sync the Common Core is with what I consider to be good teaching.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Refrain from giving background context or substantial instructional guidance at the outset. It may make sense to notify students that the short text is thought to be difficult and they are not expected to understand it fully on a first reading – that they can expect to struggle. Some students may be frustrated, but all students need practice in doing their best to stay with something they do not initially understand. This close reading approach forces students to rely exclusively on the text instead of privileging background knowledge, and levels the playing field for all students as they seek to comprehend Lincoln’s address.” Valerie”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Common Core’s odd approach to teaching the Gettysburg Address By”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Author’s note: what is “close reading? The short answer: without context. Before”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“The cognitively unsound concept of “close reading” Author”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Challenging the Research Base of the Common Core State Standards A Historical Reanalysis of Text Complexity By”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Differentiation is a promise unfulfilled, a boondoggle of massive proportions. The”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Thinking critically should be taught in the context of subject matter. The foregoing does not mean that teachers shouldn’t teach students to think critically—it means that critical thinking shouldn’t be taught on its own.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Can critical thinking actually be taught? Decades of cognitive research point to a disappointing answer: not really. People who have sought to teach critical thinking have assumed that it is a skill, like riding a bicycle,”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“After twenty years of research, Willingham announced that he had arrived at the conclusion that critical thinking cannot be taught. That”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“If one of the goals in reading instruction is to develop a love of reading, strategies instruction is not merely unhelpful, but counterproductive, he argues. ”Reading comprehension strategies seem to take a process that could bring joy, and turn it into work,”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Practicing reading strategies ad nauseam doesn’t confer any particular advantage. Data are hard to find on just how much time is spent in practice on “finding the main idea,” “determining the author’s purpose” and other such strategies in the average classroom. “But whatever the proportion of time, much of it is wasted, at least if educators think it’s improving comprehension.,” Willingham writes, this wasted time “represents a significant opportunity cost.” Why? Because building reading instruction around strategies “makes reading really boring” Willingham”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Prior knowledge is vital to comprehension because writers omit information.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound