Duh...
Posted on 05/30/2019 8:27:55 AM PDT by RightGeek
Researchers the Obama administration funded to assist Common Core’s rollout recently found, to their surprise, that under Common Core U.S. student achievement has sunk (h/t Lance Izumi).
“Contrary to our expectation, we found that [Common Core] had significant negative effects on 4th graders’ reading achievement during the 7 years after the adoption of the new standards, and had a significant negative effect on 8th graders’ math achievement 7 years after adoption based on analyses of NAEP composite scores,” the Center on Standards, Alignment, Instruction and Learning (C-SAIL) preliminary study said. “The size of these negative effects, however, was generally small.”
The study found not only lower student achievement since Common Core, but also performed data analysis suggesting students would have done better if Common Core had never existed. The achievement declines also grew worse over time, study coauthor Mengli Song told Chalkbeat, an education news website: “That’s a little troubling.”
Common Core is 640 pages of K-12 curriculum and testing mandates that nearly every state switched to between 2010 and 2013 under heavy federal pressure. President Obama, his education secretary Arne Duncan, and private financier Bill Gates promised the nation that overhauling what students learn and how it is measured would lead to student achievement gains.
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C-SAIL’s is not the only study to find that Common Core has likely caused American students to learn less. The Pioneer Institute published dozens of studies by highly qualified authors arguing that was likely, all before Common Core had fully moved into place. They were ignored and even derided because they were providing independent research contradicting the Washington DC and long-standing American bipartisan groupthink that has driven U.S. education into the ground in the past half-century.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
Students’ performance on math tests “is a strong predictor of the state’s growth rate in GDP” per person, finds a 2016 Harvard University study. It found that improving U.S. students’ math achievement to just the “basic” level on the Nation’s Report Card could boost the U.S. economy by trillions of dollars long term. So Common Core may have cost the U.S. economy by depressing American kids’ math skills below what they would have been if states had refused to adopt Common Core.
Duh...
Common core …………….total nonsense.
I thought CC was supposed to dumb down the achievers to make it “fairer” for the favored “cultures” that aren’t academically inclined?
Common crap.
As were the results.
Common Core Sunk U.S. Kids’ Test Scores..................as it was designed to do...............
Communist core is good for nobody except those in charge with an agenda.
I wish I found this funny. I don’t have children. This is a filthy, disgusting travesty.
Unexpected!
*Drink*
The government “experts”, ie hacks,” promised that scores would go up if we fed kids breakfast and lunch at school, adopted the Leftist curriculum of Common Core, and paid higher taxes for schools. Instead, we have fatter and dumber kids and billions of wasted tax dollars, as schools try to teach children who are illiterate in two languages.
This was widely predicted from the beginning.
Back then, too many Libs were caught up in the personality cult worshiping of Obama. Most were afraid to reject anything he pushed, because somebody, somewhere might decide to call them ‘racist’. The article describes the problem, but does not indicate that schools are ready to stop teaching it.
Having this discussion, looking at those graphs of decline is a good step in that direction.
Leftist “solutions” always make things worse.
If that is the goal, then it looks like they are succeeding.
I thought DeVos was brought in to end the common core crap.
I have several friends who are teachers & say it’s a joke, common core making it harder to teach kids.
Unintended consequences or exactly the outcome they planned
That’s not a bug, that’s a feature.
They’re experimenting on children, with long term effects as a result of their experimentation. Let that sink in.
Mission accomplished - academics sunk to the lowest common denominator so no one feels bad about themselves!
That’s a paraphrase of one of the primary creators of CC.
Can’t remember his name, but he did say something to that effect when the initial criticisms pointed out that it hurt more than helped most students.
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