Duh...
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 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.
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
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!
These people should be strung up by their genitals.
Math ... long the domain of boys in school was to be made so intelligible as to confuse the student to the point of failure.
this was part of the attack by the progressive left against men and the US.
the country won’t feel this for another 10 years... at which point we’ll be importing people for STEM jobs we cannot fill with Americans
Well, when the Chinese kill them all, maybe Math will become popular again.
An unenthusiastic, ignorant public is a compliant public........and that’s just one of the ways the Left gains voters.
Patriots, beware of any federal involvement in INTRAstate schooling.
From related threads…
More specifically, consider that both President Thomas Jefferson and pre-FDR era generations of state sovereignty-respecting Supreme Court justices had indicated the following concerning so-called federal power to deal with INTRAstate schooling.
The states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution to give Congress specific power to dictate policy, regulate, tax and spend in the name of intrastate schooling before Congress could actually do so, something that the states have never done.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures, not having been confided to congress, they have no more right to act upon it, than they have to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws, of the states [emphases added]. Congress is empowered to lay taxes for revenue, it is true; but there is no power to encourage, protect, or meddle with manufactures." —Joseph Story, Article 1, Section 8, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 2
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
The states need to wise up and eliminate the unconstitutional middleman, the unconstitutionally big federal government, from “helping” the states to manage their revenues, such revenues stolen by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according to Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above, unconstitutional federal interference in intrastate schooling in this example.
Both constitutional lawmaker Rep. John Bingham and Justice Brandeis had put it this way about unique state powers to care for the people.
”... the care of the property, the liberty, and the life of the citizen, under the solemn sanction of an oath imposed by your Federal Constitution, is in the States, and not in the Federal Government [emphases added].” —Rep. John Bingham, Congressional Globe, 1866. (See about middle of 3rd column.)
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” — Justice Brandeis, Laboratories of democracy.
Note that constitutional limits on states as laboratories of democracy is that states cannot establish privileged / protected classes or abridge constitutionally enumerated rights, and must maintain a constitutionally guaranteed republican form of government.
After all of that, the question is how can any state afford to establish its own schooling, healthcare and retirement programs since the corrupt, post-17th Amendment ratification federal government is continuously stealing state revenues from all states by means of unconstitutional federal taxes according the Gibbons v. Ogden excerpt above?
Remember in November 2020!
MAGA! Not Democratic MADA (Make America Dead Again)
"The “Holy Grail” of organized crime is to control government power to tax." —me
"The constitutionally undefined political parties are basically rival, corrupt voter unions, “union dues” paid by means of unconstitutional federal taxes.” —me
"The smart crooks long ago figured out that getting themselves elected to federal office to make unconstitutional tax laws to fill their pockets is a much easier way to make a living than robbing banks." —me
"Federal career lawmakers probably laugh all the way to the bank to deposit bribes for putting loopholes for the rich and corporations in tax appropriations laws, Congress actually not having the express constitutional authority to make most appropriations laws where domestic policy is concerned. Such laws are based on stolen state powers and uniquely associated stolen state revenues." —me
Surprised? really? When My wife was still teaching she got the impression that promoting more illiteracy was a goal of Common Core. The experts were not surprised. I suspect they are saying things like that now to pave the way for an even worse follow-on to Common Core. It is part of making everyone equal. You can make a much larger portion of the rising generation dumb than you can make smart. A few will, of course continue to learn stuff in spite of the system and that is a problem that needs to be addressed in the upcoming Commoner Corp. Perhaps reading books at home can be banned.
Common Core is garbage.
The way it approached math by trying to come up with novel ways for students to solve simple problems is going to leave so many students deficient in basic math skills. In addition to pushing new methods that aren’t as easy to use quickly as the traditional methods, students are often encouraged to participate in both solo and group activities where they try to come up with their way to solve problems.
The problem with this is that, while it’s true that there are often multiple ways one can approach a mathematical problem, most kids NEED simple direction, especially until their brains have reached the stage where they can truly think abstractly, which is usually NOT in the elementary school years.
The few bright mathematical geniuses that do benefit from such learning can be pulled out and taught math separately. But common core math pretends that all students have mathematical talent, and perhaps even worse, that all teachers actually understand what they are teaching. Most teachers teaching elementary common core math don’t even have the math skills to understand why they are using a different method. They just mark students wrong if they deviate from the answer sheet.
Common Core wasn’t intended to maintain or increase scores, it was intended to cripple the bright kids and bring their scores down. It is one of the many methods of redistributing (destroying) the advantage of being intelligent. They’ve already redistributed wealth, income, college credentials, and many other thing statistically linked to European culture.