Terry Marselle > Quotes

“The Common Core is an upwardly spiraling staircase of abstract/conceptual/intuitive thinking – a mode of cognition that only 30% of the population (at most) can do naturally.”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“Brain research tells us that when the fun stops, learning often stops too.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Brain studies of low SES children have shown them to be less able to filter out irrelevant information in a learning situation. Although this does not appear to influence their performance of simple tasks, it suggests that they may have to work harder to achieve the same results as other children.”
― 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

“Simply put, because the entire design and construction of the Common Core is oriented towards “grade-level expectations,” it was not at all designed for gifted students.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“tests are constructed and normed on native English speakers and may not provide valid inferences about the achievement of English Language Learners. Psychometric”
― 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

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

“There are significant differences among children who are becoming fluent in English that will influence how they learn English. These include the language spoken at home, the socioeconomic circumstances of the family, the age of the child and extent of exposure to English, fluency in the home language, circumstances surrounding the family’s immigration to the U.S., and the particular values and customs of the family.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“In Finland, children do not start formal instruction until grade 1 when they are 7. Pre-school and kindergarten are part of their schooling, but they are both totally based in play.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“On the international playing field, Connecticut students were at, or near, the top of the world in math, reading, and science. Quite simply, if Connecticut was a nation, it would be one of the highest performing nations on the planet.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“secondary ELA (English Language Arts) teachers are keenly aware of what “close reading” and the ratio of what the fiction to non-fiction literary requirements are whereas secondary mathematics teachers know what the Common Core is calling for in the area of reform math.”
― 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

“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

“Reading Comprehension Cannot Be Taught It is not a transferable skill.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“How Common Core pedagogy directly contradicts well researched tenets on how cognition works.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“We tend to teach comprehension as a series of “reading strategies” that can be practiced and mastered. Unfortunately it really doesn’t work that way. The mainspring of comprehension is prior knowledge—the stuff readers already know that enables them to create understanding as they read. Prior”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“study, they looked at 100 classes of 10 year-olds. Fifty of those classes had been play-based during their pre-K and kindergarten years – and 50 were involved with early academics classes during these same two years. The study concluded that, “By age ten, the children who had played excelled over the others. . . . They were more advanced in reading and mathematics and they were better adjusted socially and emotionally in school. They excelled in creativity and intelligence, oral expression, and industry.” As a result, Germany returned to play-based pre-K and kindergartens.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“There are 90 standards that kindergarteners are expected to learn by the end of the school year. This article goes on to say that early childhood experts are near unanimous in saying that in order to achieve the above, “usually calls for long hours of drill and worksheets – and reduces other vital areas of learning such as math, science, social studies, art, music and creative play.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

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

“What is wrong with the Common Core? . . . in one sentence. There is no science behind the Common Core.”
― 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

“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

“Counting is something you could memorize. You could just say names, right? But it doesn’t mean you understand numbers,” she says. Carlsson-Paige argues that some of the standards in the early grades are just too rigid.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Parents in prison don’t help with homework. They don’t help pay the bills. They don’t corral youngsters on bedtime patrol, advocate for them at school or advise them on the daily trials of life. They simply aren’t there.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound

“Transitioning from their first language to English before they have a firm grasp of their first language, usually by the end of Third Grade, may be detrimental in the long run.”
― Terry Marselle, Perfectly Incorrect: Why The Common Core Is Psychologically And Cognitively Unsound