Posted on 11/10/2014 8:15:14 AM PST by Academiadotorg
Naysayers take note: Common Core has had at least one unanticipated positive outcome.
“Home schooling has steadily risen in North Carolina since it was legalized in 1985 by the state Supreme Court,” T. Keung Hui reported on News Observer.com on August 13, 2014. “Twenty-five years ago, there were about 2,300 home-schooled students in North Carolina.”
“But concerns about school violence, lack of a religious focus and the large size of public schools have helped fuel home-school growth.”
“And home-school growth in North Carolina has surged the past two school years. There was a net gain of 7,603 home schools in the 2013-14 school year with a projected net enrollment increase of 10,194 students.”
“The recent growth spurt has coincided with the use of the Common Core standards in math and language arts in North Carolina’s public schools. While hailed by supporters in more than 40 states as providing a more rigorous education, critics have charged that Common Core is not appropriate for some students.”
“Common Core is a big factor that I hear people talk about,” Beth Herbert, founder of Lighthouse Christian Homeschool Association, which has around 350 families, told Hui. “They’re not happy with the work their kids are coming home with. They’ve decided to take their children home.”
“The General Assembly passed legislation in July to create a commission to recommend standards to replace Common Core,” Hui wrote.
“Overall, the K-7 standards in these grades are better than 90 percent of previous state standards,” Richard P. Phelps and R. James Milgram wrote in a study published by the Pioneer Institute in September. “They are nearly as good as the old California, Indiana, and Massachusetts standards in Kindergarten through grade 5. (This remark is not meant as praise for CCMS. Rather, it is a reflection of the abysmal quality of the vast majority of the previous state standards.)”
Phelps is the founder of the Nonpartisan Education Review and Milgram is an emeritus professor at Stanford.
“In Grade 8, the rigor of the standards declines markedly,” Phelps and Milgram write. “Apparently, requiring completion of Algebra I in grade 8 was deemed unacceptable. So grade 8 mostly marks time and does a tiny bit of Algebra around the equations of lines in the plane. It also begins a strange development of geometry that is very close to an approach tested in the former Soviet Union in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. That approach was rapidly abandoned and there is virtually no research to support it, certainly not for large-scale implementation. In both middle and high school geometry, students are to use only rotations, translations, and reflections to justify and, in a few cases, even prove results.”
May Common Core be as beneficial for home schooling as Obama has been for gun sales.
khanacademy.org.
Public schools are a 19th century paradigm that outlived its usefulness in the late 20th century. The only thing that will prevent its complete death is making it a government mandate.
So in a round-about-way, Common Core is good for education. lead’s more to homeschooling.
Now, if it could only help with misuse of apostrophes when the writer intends to make something plural.
I am going to blame that one on auto-correct.
“Apparently, homeschoolers don’t want to be Common Cored”
We don’t, but it won’t be easy to avoid. SATs and ACTs are being aligned with Common Core and public universities are going to filter admissions based on Common Core compliance in the homeschool curriculum.
The high points of that - homeschoolers are more willing to buck the “everyone needs a college education” mentality and, as a country, we really need to return to apprenticeship programs for job training.
Sorry...I would have re-sized this but it wasn’t that large on the page I found it on. (Note to self: preview is your friend.)
The goal is parallel to the Mark of the Beast -
either you will be indoctrinated in the Humanist religious institutions,
or you will be locked out of the means of providing for yourself and your family.
Like all liberal policies, commonie core comes with lots of unintentional consequences...
Thankfully one of them is Homeschooling for the lucky ones.
As a news item that probably won’t get much air time, in Arizona, the close race for Superintendent of Public Education has gone to the Republican, who ran on a single platform item: to get rid of Common Core in the state.
She did almost no campaigning vs the Democrat who spent and campaigned a lot.
really? no that didn’t get any attention back east at all
so they won't be allowing foreign students in anymore then? Because if they do, refusing American students who haven't done common core is hypocritical.
No mention of the indoctrination to Islam that is part of common core nonsense. The little infidels are getting uppity.
It completes the sweep, making AZ another “cherry red” state, with no Democrats in any high state office. Its state house is now 60% Republican, and its senate 57% Republican.
and it’s senators;>) just kidding
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