Posted on 10/24/2014 7:34:21 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
President Obama’s favorite think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), wants to align standardized tests with Common Core standards.
Recently, at CAP:
• Nancy DePalma, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment, West Hartford Public Schools, said that her district “totally redesigned our curriculum with Common Core” which “gives the teachers in-the-moment assessment” in classroom settings.
• Maura Henry, a teacher at The Young Women's Leadership School of Astoria in New York City, argued that, “Parents aren’t really anti-testing, but [anti-]over-testing” and need to be reassured they aren’t “being tricked” by the state education agencies and their tests. Henry said that while her school supported the overall testing plan, it made no sense to implement testing before students had learned the material, which happened in New York.
• Jeffrey Nellhaus, Chief of Assessment, Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, Inc., said that the face of education has changed over time. Now, with improved technology, “the online environment allows better opportunities” for ESOL and special needs kids to learn via computer programs. It helped reduce manpower and staff hours from past years where teachers would have to read the standardized tests aloud for students with learning disabilities. These new tests, said Nellhaus, are “fully aligned with the Common Core” and he claimed they were valid because “they’re customized” by local teachers. Nellhaus, a former Massachusetts Department of Education agency official, bragged that switching to Common Core reduced test turnaround—from the time the students take them to the time they get them back graded—to one month. Only in public schools would one month be considered a rapid turnover.
I guess they figure the home school student might quit showing up their mind numbed robots. Standardized tests with show your work sections? Correct answers based upon the race of the student?
Yay. More socialist indoctrination in the schools. Even stupider kids who can’t do anything but vote Dem and collect their checks.
Like ‘bleeding the patient’ was once an accepted form of medical treatment [see how George Washington died], if the patient gets worse, then you draw more blood.......................
There are high school students from other parts of the world who transfer to America and spend a few years in American high schools. It would be interesting to follow some of these around and get their take on how different an American Common Cored student is to someone graduating outside the US.
especially since CC advocates claim the tests are internationally benchmarked.
They teach it that way but then they also make her do the math by drawing pictures of 75 items and another 120 and then counting them manually like a cave man might have done. Then there is yet another way they teach for the same problem using a system of extremely complex, non-intutive methods of successive approximations to come at answers. Like to get 143 - 117 you would add 3 (to turn 117 into 120) then add another 20 (to turn 120 into 140) and then finally another 3 to get to 143. Then you add 3+20+3 = 26.
My kid comes home feeling like a dummy because she gets stuck when they force her to solve the problems in a long, complicated way that makes no sense even to most adults and mark it wrong if she uses the traditional way even if she gets the right answer. I hate this and feel it's going to cause us to lose an entire generation if something isn't done NOW.
I'm seriously considering running for the local school board.
The ghettoization of public education is good for no one.
Homeschool. Or if you can’t swing that, pick up a homeschool math curriculum and do it in the evenings. You might have to drop back a grade level; do lessons over holidays/summer and she can burn through two courses in a year.
do it!
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