What is the specifics? Any teachers out there can shed some more light on the subject?
I ask this question because all I read about it is arguing back and forth what it is but no one has proof or sources.

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Doctorr Fabulous wrote: Top hits when googling were either rabidly pro-CC or rabidly-anti CC. I don't want to educate myself about an education change on a website that can't use "Orwellian" properly.
teachermom44 wrote:My take as a teacher going into my 15th year.
Let me start by saying (with no politics intended) I don't like the idea of a national curriculum. The idea behind it was if every state used the same set of curriculum/standards then when students in our "highly transient" population would be in the same place at the same time. That sounds great in theory, right?
Well in reality not so much. States have the leeway to add up to 15% of their own standards to the CC. In NC for instance in 4th grade we study NC. Each state adopts the CC standards. In NC we did that, added some of our stuff to it and then each district in the state developed it's own pacing guide (when to teach which standard). So even if the standards are the same nationwide each state and each district may be in a different place at a different time.
The focus in reading has shifted from Fiction to Non-fiction. We still teach fiction, but we teach MORE non-fiction. The big emphasis is text dependent questions-as in the kids need to go into the text to find the answers. This is a change for NC because we were BIG on inferring and not just getting our answers from the text. To me this IS a step backwards.
Another big change is to take a particular novel and only focus on a VERY small part of it, like spending 2 to 3 days on only a few pages or a chapter, in order for the kids to "dig deeper". There is some controversy in the secondary curriculum because some of the "exemplar" texts have topics a lot of conservatives and parents aren't comfortable with. BUT if teachers use common sense they will avoid those parts.
I can only speak for NC they say to teach the standards, but it's up to us the materials we choose to use. We have NO set literature or non-fiction that we HAVE to use.
I could go on about the math, but well it's a Friday and I'm tired. So that's my excuse for any grammar or spelling problems.
And to answer your question (as paranoid as I am about a national curriculum again not a political intent here) I can't read the websites because they are either hysterically for it or hysterically against common core.
And as a personal aside I have 4 children and I pulled the 3 youngest out of public school and we home school them. We let our oldest stay in high school (he's a band geek) BUT I monitor his curriculum and assignments as closely as I can. And yes being a public school teacher who home schools confounds some that I work with, but they know how I roll. I'm stubborn and if you tell me I have to do something, I won't.