Posted on 10/26/2017 5:29:38 AM PDT by Haiku Guy
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Well said!!!
They make that assumption about themselves in part because too many of us go along making the same assumption about them.
That explains the death threats against Betsy DeVos...
Funny,or maybe not so funny, how kids back in he 1890’s, educated in one room school houses, were better educated then kids today going to multi-million dollar schools..
(algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus) was discarded in favor of a grneric math 1, math 2, math 3, math 4 sequence, each with a random hodgepodge of unrelated topics
Like no company I have ever had contact with, MS loves to tell people how to work, how to think and punishes them when they don’t do what they are told.
No wonder they were big supporters of Obama.
Common Core is one of the reasons why I am not a teacher anymore (the other is the fact that I barely made minimum wage). Even little old me knew that Common Core would not work because not everybody’s brain is wired the same way. The latest theory I have heard about how people think is Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences, which divides intelligence into nine different “modalities” such as music, math skills, interpersonal skills, body kinestethics (athletic skills), and so on.
That made sense to me. It explains why one person may become a musician while another becomes an athlete. If you accept this theory, you should not ask how smart a person is, but ask “How is he smart?” I don’t see how Common Core, or any other “one size fits all” method of education, can work with that.
I don’t think so....most schools use Apple products.
It’s one of those ideas that seems very rational on paper but could never survive First Contact with the real world.
(Particularly with a corrupt Washington, DC)
his plan was to have lots of happy worker bees trained to do low end jobs, with private schools for the sons and daughters of the elites.
His common core violated Matthew 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.
Let him and his wench rot in hell.
Common Core was deeply flawed, but it is critical that some sort of real gauge be put in place so parents realize their children aren’t receiving any real education at all. I’ve seen too many children issued great grades with no knowledge at all; my children describe being offered grade increases/extra credit for bringing in cans for food drives.
For decades the powerful teachers’ unions have drawn huge salaries by pretending to educate; there was no metric against which their failure would be exposed.
Jeb would have made common core work!
Which is part of the reason that home schooling works so well. The program "bends" to fit the learning talents of the individual.
The successful future model is likely to be Khan Academy, with different progression routes based on a child's mix of learning styles. ALL "classroom teaching" will eventually be over the internet, with physical schools relegated to "lab" type activities (music, shop, actual hands-on science experimentation).
This will decimate the teachers unions membership, and will be fought tooth and nail by them.
"Education is a weapon whose effects depend on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed." ~ Joseph Stalin
It's a great idea! It just hasn't been tried by the right people!
(...where have I heard that before?...)
What I love is how Bill and Melinda Gates managed to spend $400,000,000 or their foundation money to direct the expenditure of $4,000,000,000,000 in public money. For those who only know Common Core Math, that means for every $1 of Gates Foundation money. they gained control of $10,000 or our money.
That is a heck of a leverage.
Perhaps. I think the entire concept of intelligence and its genesis and modalities is probably a bit more complicated than something that can fit on a bumper sticker. As you said, 'one size fits all' doesn't really work very well. Not every child should expect to be going to college. We do ourselves a great disservice by thinking so, and by disparaging those who's natural inclination is towards the various trades. We need plumbers, electricians, and carpenters more than we need more graduates of 'womyns studies'.
Something I've noticed over the years is that preconceptions are a sword that cuts both ways. I've run into people before that it would have been really easy to peg as an uneducated hick, yet after simply talking to them for a little while you realize that they have an extraordinary knowledge of at least one, and probably two subjects/fields that interest them.
Most folks have something like that, a topic or field that they are passionate about. You can learn a lot about subjects that you'd never considered just by taking a little while to listen. Amazing, that the old trope 'it takes all kinds to make a world' is absolutely, and irrefutably true. It's a blessing to us all that we often miss, because we're stuck in our own little worlds.
The Lord is often more subtle than we give Him credit for in His plans.
Bill Gates did the world a favor with the technology he brought to the world... it’s where he should have stayed. Lots of people know how to give away money and seek control over other people’s children.
But few could ever do what Gates did... wish he’d go back to what he knows...
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