Posted on 12/14/2017 7:12:05 AM PST by Academiadotorg
A new study from the Pioneer Institute in Boston shows that in Massachusetts, Common Core, like the world, is with us late and soon. Unfortunately, it's got all the world’s drawbacks and none of its benefits.
"The previous standard provided a coherent line-up of texts in the parenthetical phrase, four works that form a single national and historical lineage (Declaration, Preamble, Bill of Rights, and Lincoln’s Second Inaugural)," the report reads. "One can identify the curricular focus easily and fill in more material that follows from it: some of the Federalist Papers, various constitutional amendments, Frederick Douglass’s speech on the Declaration and the 4th of July, and Martin Luther King's glosses on the Declaration, not to mention texts that influenced the Founders and Lincoln, such as Leviticus, John Locke, and Montesquieu."
"Students would leave the unit with a solid familiarity with the civic philosophy of the United States. But the new list of examples drops the Bill of Rights and Lincoln. Instead, we have one text from Medieval England and one from Revolutionary France. These two examples break up the coherence of the old list."
English professor Mark Bauerlein from Emory University co-authored the report, with R. James Milgram, professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University, and Jane Robbins, senior fellow with the American Principles Project. "These standards rely on process- and skills-based ideas, which brush aside knowledge of Western and English literary traditions," Bauerlein says. "The result is a set of standards light on content but heavy on fuzzy subjective terms such as 'high quality' and 'challenging.'"
"Great works of literary art and the history of the English language, not to mention the American patrimony, disappear."
What is she waiting for?
The president Promised and end to common core and vouchers, Betsey seems to busy to do anything but go to elementary schools and eat ice cream and cake.
It’s no just history, go see your local superintendent of schools and ask him, her or it, to SHOW you how they transition from common core arithmetic to algebra and geometry.
All the power is in those “fuzzy” terms. Whatever the instructor proclaims, that’s what those terms are to mean.
This is all about what the meaning of is, is.
The launch into changing the meanings of words and phrases and changing history to “nudge” the masses into the direction as designed.
I thought Betsy Devos’ first priority was to eliminate common core??
We’re still waiting. My grandson in 3rd grade used to love math. Not anymore.
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