Have you been in a classroom lately? I am no fan of Common Core. It stinks just like the girl in the article says. However, Common Core must be failing if illiteracy is its goal. I have spent some time in classrooms lately, and the same children who would have learned to read, write, and calculate are the same as when there was no Common Core. I think the math curriculum is garbage. But my children do not seem to have any problems learning what is being taught. They are doing Algebra in every grade now. I think they should focus on fundamentals of addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc. Traditionally fourth graders would be doing a lot of long division at this point, but that is not what I am seeing. They are doing seventh grade word problems but using bar graphs to solve the problems.
It is hard to program out the can-do core beliefs of people who have God given freedoms. And speaking of God, I was in a second grade classroom recently, and the students were watching an old Disney (I think) cartoon about Johnny Appleseed. Johnny Appleseed was singing a little tune about how “the Lord’s been good to me.” A few hours later, the students were completing a lesson on Johnny Appleseed, and a child who tends to stay in trouble and not complete all of his work looked at me and started telling me about how God takes care of us. Hopefully, his apple seed will grow, and he will become a responsible, freedom loving follower of God when he is an adult.
Wait a couple years - it hasn’t been fully ‘installed’ yet