Will the Common Core Standards Help Our Troubled Economy?

MainStreet.com ^ | 7-12-13 | Michael P. Tremoglie

[William Tell 2]

NEW YORK (MainStreet)—Secretary of Education Arne Duncan defended his Common Core standards during an address at the annual convention of the American Society of News Editors at the end of June. He admonished his critics.

Secretary Duncan noted ...

[goodwithagun]

No!
Full disclosure: I’m a teacher.

[Leaning Right]

Will the Common Core Standards Help Our Troubled Economy?

I don't know about that. But one thing I do know is that the federal government has absolutely no business meddling in local schools.

Of course, that's the wave of the future. Soon the Secretary of Transportation will be telling you which route you must take to work every morning.

[Noumenon]

Communist Core....

[DManA]

Statist mantra is diversity, diversity, diversity.

Except when it comes to the education industry.

Then it’s monoculture, monoculture, monoculture.

[EinNYC]

CC is nothing more than a blatantly Socialist indoctrination program. ONE ring shall rule them ALL. It is educationally crapola, fit for Obama's children. Not anyone else's. It is designed to turn the nation's kids into employee-bots, with just enough knowledge to do their jobs. This is coupled with wanting to toss out having to memorize all those nasty science words and concepts and "streamline" science education to "analyzing the PROCESS of science" and "climate change". In other words, further dumb down science education. No more "how do muscles work", "what is the anatomy of the eye", "why do you shiver when it's cold", etc.

I am also a teacher. A science teacher. A really really pissed off science teacher. Who could watch non-educators assume the mantle of expert and foist crap like this on experienced educators and not be angry?

[grania]

Federal interference in education is a nightmare. So are all of the resources going into special services for students with handicaps, by federal requirements.

[GraceG]

Common Core will help the economy of the elites in that a dumbed down “properly thinking” populace will always pull the lever for one of the elite’s two pre determined choices....

[Don Corleone]

Anything, repeat anything, that comes out of this administration is and should be suspect for its intentions and forecast results. They are all anti-american and determined to undermine this nation. No exceptions..red or blue!

[William Tell 2]

Has anyone actually read the article - or is everybody just making comments based on the headline and excerpt?

Just curious, because, unfortunately many conservatives just like to shoot from the hip.

[goodwithagun]

Yes I have read the article, and my answer remains the same. I don’t care what Duncan claims. As a teacher I’m personally dealing with Common Core and Race to the Top, and as with NCLB they stink to high heaven! They do nothing to fix the problems and in fact make problems even worse. Don’t even get me started on RttT’s civil rights section!

[preacher]

The article says that no one has seen common core tests. Why are they being kept secret?

[goodwithagun]

We’ve not seen the end of course exams because they don’t start until this school year. We don’t know what will be on the tests, but our students will be tested according to the CC standards. Here’s just one little sample of the fun that awaits us: The testing will be in April. Or maybe it won’t. We can’t get an answer because the bureaucrats in charge don’t have an answer. If it is in April, these end of course exams will happen about two months before the actual end of the course. Government efficiency at its best right there!

[goodwithagun]

I’d really like to know what incestuous relationships PARCC has with which Congress critters. This company is the Solydra of Big Ed, it just hasn’t filed for bankruptcy. Must be really nice to be one of those executives!

[AZLiberty]

PARCC is a “non-profit” funded by a $186M federal grant. They’re paying the education conglomerate Pearson to write the tests.

[goodwithagun]

I know, but I’d also like to know who their BFFs are on both sides of the aisle. Pearson is also interesting. Almost all of my graduate texts were Pearson. There’s another unholy alliance in Big Ed.

[AZLiberty]

Pearson is to education as Microsoft once was to PC software. They are the biggest player in textbooks and now educational software (by buying up every company that has any success at it). Their PARCC role — writing the tests — gives them the inside track on everything to do with the Common Core.

Ed tech still awaits its Steve Jobs and Linus Torvald.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks William Tell 2.

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