Posted on 01/09/2015 7:45:56 AM PST by Academiadotorg
With a little less than two years to go until the 2016 presidential contest, GOP contenders are staking out positions on the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms that are markedly to the right of putative front runner Jeb Bush:
• “Most of us believe in less federal government and more decentralized government, particularly with education,” Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said on “The Kelly File” on Fox News. “For Jeb Bush to run in the primary will be very, very difficult. If you’re going to be for a national curriculum — for Common Core, for No Child Left Behind — this accumulation of power in Washington; that’s not very popular.”
• "Common Core started out as a well-intentioned effort to develop more rigorous curriculum standards," Senator Marco Rubio, R-Florida, said in a statement to the Tampa Bay Times in 2013. "However, it is increasingly being used by the Obama Administration to turn the Department of Education into what is effectively a national school board. This effort to coerce states into adhering to national curriculum standards is not the best way to help our children attain the best education. Empowering parents, local communities and the individual states is the best approach.”
• “After news of the Republican wave last night that led to the GOP reclaiming control of the U.S. Senate, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) called on the Republican-majority Senate to repeal the Common Core,” Shane Vander Hart reported last November. “Now is the time to honor the 10th Amendment and repeal Common Core,” Senator Cruz said.
• “Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee has now put himself on the list of potential Republican candidates for president in 2016, which explains, perhaps, why he is backing off his once outspoken support of the Common Core State Standards initiative — even while insisting that his original backing made sense,” Valerie Strauss reported in The Washington Post on December 13, 2013. Although Huck lobbied for it in Oklahoma, he later claimed he had problems with its implementation.
• “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker appears to be wavering on his opposition to Common Core, scaling back his demand for a legislative repeal to simply allowing school districts to have a choice in the matter,” Fred Lucas reported in The Blaze on December 18, 2014.
Yup.
Everything else aside, Common Core alone makes Jeb Bush a non-starter for me. As onorous as the injection of social indictrination elements is, it’s the math component that I really stand to fight on. I’ve seen the work that came home with my kids. I have an advanced degree in Business and a heavy quantitative background in economics, finance, accounting and statistics. The common core style math instruction and work they got was ludicrous. An opinion shared by multiple members of my family, also with advanced degrees in business and management.
It will depend on who they are speaking to.
This is how much money influences politics. Common Core is toxic among R’s and many D’s. Supporting it will hurt any R candidate. Here in CO, we still have R’s who support it but talk in public as if they don’t, with a lot of mau-mauing.
At the national level, there are huge amounts of money being made and to be made off of common core. So the mau-mauing will be much more extensive there.
& Jeb has none of those things!
But, he is reluctant to budge on them and will not listen to common sense conservatives.
Wouldn't it be nice if all the candidates were as obstinate when it came to first principles and the Constitution?
For anyone on the fence or unsure as to why Common Core is a bad idea, go here:
http://www.commoncoremovie.com/
In our current one party political system you can know exactly how to determine what gets funded, despite representatives usual staged protests on spending, you can know if spending defies common sense, the spending will be authorized, these types of spending will pass by one or two votes to give the impression there was fight going on.
Conservatives need to divorce the uniparty beast, and come out from among them, start an opposition second party.
That is how the Dino/Rino uniparty intends to use conservatives; as tools to project a form of defiance knowing they have votes to pass whatever they want, conservatives must reject this one party system NOW!
Huckabee/CommonCore = Romney/RomneyCare
Huck No!
I have discussed Common Core math assignments with an MIT grad, engineering and business educator. He could identify at least two ways to solve some of the problems so it was impossible to know what was expected of the student. The goals of an assignment were unclear. The attempt at practicing a method of thinking raised the question why that method was of any value to learn. There were horribly ambiguous questions asking the student to explain or describe how he or she solved a problem. Solving the problem was a mathematical exercise that did not need a qualitative explanation, otherwise, why would we do it mathematically—math is supposed to be a method for doing things that aren’t achievable using other skills such as language skills. It really is confusing and of unknown long-term effect. If your child is an abstract thinker and gets some guidance from his or her teacher about the intended approach to solving each problem, then that student might be able to complete assignments “correctly”—but the question would remain, “Why do it this way?”
& someone reminded me, he supported Dewhurst over Ted Cruz
Common Core is making PARCC and Pearson very wealthy. They have exclusive rights to classroom materials and testing. I wonder how much they’ve donated to his campaign?
Get your children out of the public schools (government indoctrination centers) - Now!
Pearson’s offices are right next door to mine.
You can live quite well with out being able to solve complex equations, but if you are living under communism/socialism what does it matter?
$.98 - $.89 < $.10
It’s a matter of choosing what element to fight Common Core on.
It’s easier and more effective to go after it for the math. Which is more definable/tangible and seen as causing a lot more headaches and pain by the kids and parents forced to deal with it.
Remember that Al Capone was taken down for tax evasion. Same principle at work. Fight on the math, get rid of it all.
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