Posted on 09/15/2015 7:32:23 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
As more states learn what Common Core involves, fewer of them want anything to do with it. “The number of states participating in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) Common Core-aligned testing consortium has fallen from 26 plus Washington, DC in 2010 to just seven states and Washington, DC today, according to the Pioneer Institute,” Heather Kays reported in School Reform News. “Ohio abandoned PARCC on June 30, making it the latest state to back out of the consortium.”
“Ohio officials decided in July to use the assessments created by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), which has partnered with the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium. AIR already administers Ohio’s standardized social studies and science tests.” School Reform News is published by the Heartland Institute.
By the way, in her book, Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools?, Mercedes K. Schneider notes that “PARCC received a $170 million federal startup grant” from the Obama Administration as well as “an additional $16 million to help consortia states ‘transition’ to the resulting assessments.”
“(Transitioning to common assessments happens to be one of the [Race to the Top] RTTT criteria.” Race to the Top is the Obama Administration’s education reform plan.
On the bright side, even if Common Core, as it looks increasingly likely, goes belly up, students and teachers can console themselves with their bulk copies of Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs, a favorite text of Common Core enthusiasts.
This has been a hot topic in WI for the last few years with Scott Walker taking a stand against it. Unfortunately, we are at the mercy of the State Superintendent of Education who is always elected by an overwhelming coalition of teachers through their union. Recently there has been a move by the legislature to change the position to an appointed one so that he/she must answer to the governor.
The question remains: will Tony Evers jam this program down our throats anyway?
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Dick, Jane, Sally and Spot were good enough for my generation.
Those books were a part of the failed Whole Word system of teaching children to read, a previous innovation foisted upon children by the enlightened education mafia. It was designed to replace the successful phonics system which was deemed out of fashion.
Hmmmm.... I learned phonics while reading Dick & Jane books
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[snip] Dr. Pook's startling admission is contained within the video below:
I was taught phonics during english (or something) and Dick and Jane were the readers we practiced our abilty to read on.
Thanks for the information. I didn’t know that history.
The textbooks need to be redone. Especially the ones from Pearson Publishing. The ones being used for Common Core are PC history, etc. READ YOUR CHILDREN’S BOOKS! Make sure they aren’t being indoctrinated instead of taught the truth!
States need to keep their own Education Dollars instead of sending the money to DC and then begging to get it back!
I suppose they could be used in addition to phonics, but their repetitive nature was designed to help children memorize words. Meanwhile, children steeped in phonics were learning to decode words.
we have put way too many layers between students and teachers, parents and school boards.
As did I and I suspect we are all "victims" of older/experienced teachers who saw the folly of "Whole Word" for what it was and folded phonics into their classroom reading time. God Bless such teachers!
To this day, I take some pride in saying those eleventeen syllable latin thingy's that are ingredients in Cool Whip
Come to think of it ... I don't think you can teach syllables UNLESS there is a phonics base
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