Posted on 06/14/2016 8:10:31 AM PDT by milton23
I would say that the graduates of the 70s were the beginnings of the dumbing down. The anything goes idea of free sexual expression, drugs, anti-war demonstrations etc came to fruition in the 70s. The riots of 1968 were the genesis of these bad things to come. I am happy to report that my generation missed it by a decade.
wha...that’s kan’t bee write.
No really, it’s OK since colleges really want higher paying foreign students who do much better on admissions exams. Plan working perfectly.
“While secondary teachers may be focusing on source-based writing [essays written about source-based documents], as emphasized in the Common Core, college instructors appear to value the ability to generate sound ideas more than some key features of source-based writing.”
What? You mean its more important to be able to critically think and come up with your own ideas and defend them rather than simply do nothing more that regurgitate what you heard someone else say and be able to cite them as a source? Who would have thunk that an educational system that exists anymore purely to indoctrinate would be prioritizing the ability to parrot over the ability to think....
Shocking I say... Shocking..
>t has occurred to me that Common Core or no Common Core, our society has done a very bad job of preparing the next generation for what’s coming
Completely disagree. What’s coming is that which they’ve been indoctrinated, all w/out a whimper of protest: the final fall of the Republic.
One does not fundamentally change that which is held to high esteem or understood. ‘Schools’, GOVT schools, have had decades to make sure neither are true.
Common Core is suppose to dumb down the kids. It is working as planned.
Would love to see some schools run a K-8 trial using phonics, old McGuffey Readers, old math books with no calculators, rote memorization, and see how the 8th graders turn out.
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