Posted on 02/03/2015 6:43:12 AM PST by Academiadotorg
The Common Core education standards are not advancing as supporters of them had hoped and the Obama Administration that promoted them bears much of the blame, according to a journal of the education establishment.
“Common Core has an image problem,” Kathleen Vail writes in the American School Board Journal. “The set of academic standards in math and language arts were embraced by 43 states and the District of Columbia in record time. States and individual school districts have been spending time, e¬ffort, and money to implement the standards.”
“As those efforts go on, states have begun to pull out of the standards. At the EdNet conference I attended this fall, one public relations professional noted that, years from now, the Common Core will be a textbook example of a tainted brand. It certainly didn’t help when pundits started calling the standards Obama Core—referring to the U.S. Department of Education’s enthusiastic support.”
Indeed, one could argue that only a vowel separates Obama Core from the disastrous health care makeover that the president proclaims that he is proud that his name is attached to. Nevertheless, Vail never acknowledges that a large part of the problem lay with the content of the education plan.
If you don’t believe me, just go to the math page of the Common core web site and try to find any mention of multiplication or division.
“Common Core has an image problem,” Kathleen Vail writes
Yeah, when it makes math HARDER to do, that would make it image have a problem.
When it makes simple concepts absolutely dense, that would give it an image problem.
When it adds layers of useless BS to otherwise quick simple tasks, that would be an image problem.
yup..
Common Core is just another attempt by the America haters to dumb down and indoctrinate the population into becoming good little peasants.
Meanwhile the years of effects that this idiocy project has operating will be felt for a lifetime
by those students as they grow older. And what the graduates deem to be normal will not
be acceptable by the business community and Management looking to hire.
How do the Feds plan to fix the stupidly taught thrown out into the real world?
When I was in school we were taught to learn, not to follow behind and just memorize.
I use those same techniques to this day in my business to adapt to new technologies
in the marketplace. I cannot imagine how those effected by Obama-Core will handle
real world business as they grow older. They certainly will have leadership issues.
Commie Core isn’t such a big hit, who wouldda thunk it.
“Ignorant, ignorant, ignorant. No. You can not fix common core with an image make over”
I agree. However Bill Bennett, Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Education, and Jeb Bush are big advocates for Common Core. It appears the Republican establishment is on board.
Common Core is another joke being perpetrating on our society by over educated idiots. As they say higher education is where you learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.
The smartest people this country has ever known wrote our constitution, did they have Common Core?
Teaching by The Book: Classical education (excerpt)
"Grammar is the accumulation of facts, when kids love memorization," Wilson said. So rote learning is used heavily in the elementary grades.
By the seventh grade, children become argumentative and like to challenge adults, he said. During this dialectic stage, students are taught formal logic and how to argue intelligently.
By grade 10, according to the model, students become more concerned with how others perceive them. In the rhetoric stage, students are taught how to express themselves verbally and in writing.
#%$^&! arrogant eggheads will never go away.
And then the parents found out about it.
& when you press them on the content, all they say is, “don’t you want standards?”
Coup de gras
They were only “embraced” by states due to federal money being part of the deal, from what I understand.
Common Core is fraudulent at its core.
http://pioneerinstitute.org/featured/common-core-english-and-math-standards-not-properly-validated/
” the Common Core will be a textbook example of a tainted brand”
So they will just rename it and keep pushing it. It will take two years to get the public to be aware of the fraud.
I will believe it when Kasich denounces it from Ohio. Until then, I’m sure 0bamacare is also on the ropes, right?
So, students A, B, & C are taught methods 1,2, & 3 for basic subtraction. Student A immediately grasps 1, but struggles with 2 & 3. Student B gets 2, but struggles with 1 & 3. Student C struggles with all 3, but gets 3.
So, you've "reached" all three students. But, where this goes awry is teaching two methods the students don't understand corrupts their comprehension of the method they DO understand. When that gets corrupted, the child becomes frustrated and gives up.
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