Posted on 04/21/2014 10:30:36 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Does anyone sense a desperation among the left over the future of Common Core?
Yesterday, NewsBusters' Clay Waters, published a story about the New York Times claiming that only "Angry" Anti-Obama Right Mad at Common Core Standards and today the Daily Beast also chimes in with a similar story except they are a bit more "balanced" by including teacher's unions in its attack although most of its fury is focused on their "usual suspects" on the right. The one big thing missing in the Daily Beast article written by Charles Upton Sahm, The Incredibly Stupid War on the Common Core, are any of the many specific examples put forth by the critics. Both the New York Times and The Daily Beast dare not do that because it is those examples that point out the absolute absurdity of Common Core teaching methods especially in the field of mathematics. One such criticism was brilliantly illustrated by Karen Lamoreaux, an Arkansas mother, as you can see in this viral video (and after the jump) while addressing her state board of education.
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They were partially correct. Remove “criticism of”, change “as” to “is”, making the statement “Common Core is Incredibly Stupid”.
Remember, any publication calling itself “Daily Beast” says it all.
Isn’t the Daily Beast what’s left of what was left of Newsweek after the value of the entire company dropped to less than the price of one copy of their product magazine?
What would their hero Gobbels say?
Mao is spinning like a lathe!
Pol-Pot can't even bring himself to look up out of Hades to see the weak work of his like-minded comrades.
The Politburo would be ashamed...
That alone condemns it. What are they hiding?
Non-disclosure agreements have no place in public education.
5 of the 24 respected educators who were supposed to certify it declined. That's more than 20%. The math certifier declined because it isn't teaching math, it's teaching social justice in its place.
I think those at the daily beast should be forced to do the math problems. When they get them right, then they can defend common core.
“You would think that the Socialist supporters of Common Core would be able to come up with a better insult than just “stupid”.
I wouldn’t, except they already used their 437 quota of “racist” for the month.
Not surprising.
After all, those of us who can’t Internet good enough to get health care, shore can’t keep up with the communist corps.
follow the money
Local control of education is smart and consistent with democratic and Christian values. We’ve built a nation, won wars, and led in scientific advancement with what used to be local control of education.
Of course the Daily Beast would think the criticism of Common Core is incredibly stupid because the ilks behind the Daily Beast are incredibly stupid.
It is not unreasonable to set basic goals/standards for grade school, e.g., 2nd grade basic addition and subtraction; 4th grade long division; etc. But the standards coupled with new age teaching methods that are unproven and often patently absurd are too much to take. Every few years a new educational fad takes hold and lasts for several years until it dies a painful death of absolute failure.
As a senior in college, I discovered I still needed one math course to complete my degree. One section of “Algrebraic Principles of New Math” was open. This course introduced the concept of “sets”, which in the grade school of the 50s was covered quite succinctly by the idea you could not add apples and oranges unless you called them fruit. Now a whole new lexicon of terms had to be invented to cover the concept as well as steps to handle the transition. My breaking point was reached by the 21 steps it took to prove that 1 > 0. The video example of how you can turn 90/18 = 5 into a 108 step process brought back old memories of frustration with such garbage.
The Death of Common Sense is not exaggerated.
Naturally, when folks started talking about "standards" in order to correct the laughable ignorance of those who graduated "HS" after O say, 1965, I was all for it.
BUUUUUT....As you say, "... the standards coupled with new age teaching methods that are unproven and often patently absurd are too much to take.
In my post-retirement Math teaching at the Community College level, I have come to really like and admire my students. But we have failed them. They are dumber than a box'0'rocks, and would have not made it in the 6th grade of my youth. Ignorance ain't bliss.
BTW, who is supposed to "improve" education? The "Education Majors?" The "School Administrators?" The people running schools right now are very, very dumb ... and alll Democrats.
Walter Williams, among others, state that the Dept. of Education is the ghetto of any university, accepting any and all comers, usually the less talented and filling their minds with the latest claptrap theories. Instead of preparing teachers with majors in what they are to teach such as math, science, language, literature, etc., they major in "education" to get a certificate. Never mind that some can't write a correct English sentence or do basic math, they are sent out to teach the young.
An MS in math or zoology can't teach middle school until that certificate is in hand.
Thinking that I might teach in public school, I took one course from the Education Dept. That cured me of any desire to follow that course. But I did teach college courses for 7 years in the late 60s and early 70s. Even then I noted that students seemed to have less "common knowledge" year after year.
One theory advanced for the decline in education (I forget who wrote it) was that it could largely be blamed on the women's movement opening new careers for women in business and the professions. At one time, women with degrees had essentially two options, teaching or nursing. Although it sounds sexist, it likely has some merit. Would you choose a teaching career if you could make twice as much in business?
Western Christian Civilization has to be "Deconstructed." All cultures are equal, you see. Cultures that eat their dead and/or remove the external genitalia of little girls have to, therefore, become just as "good" as ours, whatever "good" means.
The "Education Majors" are the ideal diciples for the propogation of this doctrine.
I agree. It is not uncommon to hear interviews with youngsters on the street who can’t identify within 100 years the time of the Civil War or those who think that Bill Clinton’s crowning achievement was the Louisiana Purchase. You would think that even without learning such in school they would’ve absorbed something through contact with television shows or other media, but that is not the case.
As you say, deconstruction has been the theme in art, literature and history for many years. Currently I find that gay and lesbian studies in literature at the advanced level is the norm, probably due to the departments filled with Marxists and gays. There was some of that during my time in academia, but it now seems to be the standard.
sudn't dat be corpse?
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