Posted on 03/25/2015 11:36:10 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
No way to know when Common Core will die or whether No Child Left Behind will suffer a similar fate but the trend nationwide is obvious. Parents, teachers, schools and districts want the federal government out
Americans are learning the hard way that the federal government should not be permitted to impose one-size-fits-all standards to education. It was never intended to play a role in education and the absence of any mention in the Constitution is proof enough that education was intended to be supervised by the states where the school districts, schools, and parents are closest to the process.
Common Core is going to play a large role in the 2016 elections and that is likely to impact former Governor Jeb Bush the most. At the heart of the unhappiness with Common Core has been its emphasis on testing.
A March 20th Wall Street Journal article, “Bush Faces Test of Exam Policy”, reported that “A Rasmussen Reports nationwide survey in February found that 52% of respondents thought there was too much emphasis on testing in schools and 69% believed there was too much ‘teaching to the test.’”
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Good.
Now bury “No Child Left Behind” right beside it.
My 8th grade middle schooler hates Common Core Algebra. When I try to explain Algebra the way I learned it, he tells me he can’t do it that way...
I think BIG. We need to abolish the NEA. It’s not the FedGov’s job.
With the recent reports on where the U.S. kids stand compared to the rest of the world in “education” and knowledge (second from last), those reports tell us that whole educational system needs to be “Sh&t Canned”.
It seems like it could be used against homeschoolers.
But he can't choose. He gets zero credit unless he does it the common core way.
I actually blew up at my elementary school aged child’s teacher over this.
When we couldn’t understand the common core methods and did it the old fashioned way and got the right answers, she counted the problems wrong for using the wrong method.
As if 40x39 is better solved as 40x40 and then subtracting 40 as the STANDARD way to do it, when teaching the kid 40x39 means they can solve 38x38, etc.
The other idiocy is renaming everything from takeaways to matrix math, and then acting as if parents are the idiots when they have to be given translation sheets. The teacher tried to say we couldn’t do 3rd and 4th grade math because we weren’t good at it. I explained that if two engineers who use Calculus and linear algebra each day for work and a spouse who tutored differential equations don’t understand the assignment, it isn’t because we are bad at math.
..And if he chooses to do it the non-Common Core way he will be rewarded with an F.
Get together with all the ither patents in his class....get them to all do it the correct (old) way...
Hold a weekly class at your home uf you have to...or local eaterie...they cant flunk all the students
S/b “other parents”
his average is actually A- right now... I must tread carefully. LOL
It will hurt his grades. Most common core math problems start with "using method X" and end with "show your work". They aren't interested in getting the right answer, they care more about your process. Which might be okay if they didn't come up with needlessly complex and ridiculous processes to solve simple problems.
Like how they want you to find the sum 23 + 28. kids are told to subtract 3, add 2, add 20 + 30 = 50, add 3, subtract 2 to get 51. Five steps, not kidding.
I actually got on the air in Louisville on local talk radio a week or so ago and got to spout my phrase, “public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived it’s usefulness in the late 20th century.”
He said I opened up a can of worms he didn’t have time to dig into. (My paraphrase)
With Khanacademy, MIT and so many other online learning opportunities that are leaps and bounds better than public schools, the only reason for them to still exist is to supply taxpayer paid, and exorbitantly priced babysitting through age 17.
? Common Core? Or, the death of it?
When I saw a bit of FNC last night, Gov. John Kasich (RINO-OH) was mentioned as a possible candidate for president. I think I heard it said he insists Common Core does NOT mandate curriculum; it's just a set of guidelines. And he's just fine with it.
What a shame. Kasich used to be one of the good guys in the U.S. House. Then, he went back to Ohio (a big-time presidential election battleground state), apparently to move toward the center, run for Governor to get some executive experience, and prepare for a White House bid. (He won reelection in a landslide last November.)
I hate to say this but I think “communism core” is here to stay. Our politicians love it! ;-(
Well, my state’s community colleges and four-year colleges plan to utilize Common Core when deciding placement for incoming students, so they expect Common Core to be around for a long time.
The funny part of this is that when I have to solve a complex arithmetic problem in my head, I do something like this example: make adjustments to some of the terms until the operation is easy, then undo the adjustments. But doing the problem pencil-and-paper, there's no need to do it that way. Use the conventional algorithms for multiplication, division, or whatever. If the kid becomes proficient in arithmetic, he'll eventually figure out how to do it in his head the "common core" way. No one had to teach me.
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