Posted on 08/19/2014 12:10:13 PM PDT by xzins
A new survey shows that support for the federal education standards known as the Common Core is slipping.
Education Next, an education journal from Stanford University's Hoover Institution, surveyed 5,000 respondents (including a number of educators) and found that just 40 percent of teachers back the Common Core compared to 76 percent just a year ago.
At the same time, teacher opposition has tripled from 12 to 40 percent.
The survey finds that support among the public is also slipping. In 2013, 65 percent of the general public favored the standards compared to 53 percent today.
Across the states, momentum to repeal the Common Core has also grown in the last year. Republican governors in Oklahoma and South Carolina have signed laws passed by their legislatures to repeal it.
The Ohio General Assembly is considering the issue this week. In Louisiana, Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal announced in June that he will withdraw Louisiana from the standards.
New Math and Look Say reading were another couple of liberal teachers lounge experiments that flopped terribly.
Jindal read some of the CC homework of his offspring, and changed his mind on supporting it.
The defenders point out that it was Jeb Bush, as the then-leader of the National Governors Association was the one that pushed for it.
What really bothers me is that one of the architects of CC is now in charge of dumbing down the SAT/ACTs. Probably to justify the lousy students he helped defraud and abuse with CC.
Learn more about Charlotte Iserbyt and her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: here
Similarly, Australians fight "Gonski education reforms" in Australia.
I live with two public school teachers. One thinks Common Core is just guidelines, not curriculum, and all of the hype is ill informed. The other thinks Common Core is a boatload of crap, and wants nothing to do with it.
I think parents need to start educating their own children.
The MINUTE I first laid eyes on it, I was totally against it. I realized it was a thinly veiled attempt at government indoctrination and homogenizing what kids learn and how they learn it. America’s great strength is its diversity of problem-solving approaches. Everyone learning the same thing the same way stifles that.
I think parents need to wake up! This common core “thing” was nothing but a front to institute data mining prek-career.
Indoctination! You can watch two trailers on this site . . . http://superstore.wnd.com/video/Education_2/IndoctriNation-Public-Schools-and-the-Decline-of-Christianity-in-America-DVD
DVD and Book also available at Amazon. Gets good reviews.
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