Common Core State Standards: Pros and Cons

What is Academic Language?  Domain Specific Vocabulary- i.e. biology, geometry, civics, geography, etc. or words that are general academic vocabulary that may mean something different in each discipline. General Academic Vocab 570 Word families, the stem+all inflections and the most frequent, productive and regular prefixes and suffixes. Metalanguage: i.e. genre, or factor, postulate Symbols usually Mathematically, but also Geography.