I thought this book was labelled NONfiction

by Roger Sutton
Jan 10, 2014 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
LiarLiarOn the dust jacket for Jean Craighead George and Wendell Minor's Galápagos George, forthcoming from HarperCollins, I see the following statement: "This book meets the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts/Science and Technical Subjects." You big fat liars: Galápagos George, whose virtues are indeed many, does NOT meet the CCSS Standards, because the CCSS Standards do not purport to evaluate books or any other classroom materials. I told you all that this would happen.
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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Myra Zarnowski

Thank you for this important reminder. I have been saying from the very beginning that The Commom Core Standards are not IN the books! The standards are about what we teachers and our students do with then, which is largely to read them critically and use them to learn new information. Stickers on books proclaiming that they are CCSS books are ridiculous.

Posted : Jan 11, 2014 10:51

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