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Ohio drops PARCC testing (Hated Common Core Testing Ended; Kasich Signs)
Galion Inquirer ^ | July 1st, 2015

Posted on 07/01/2015 11:06:38 AM PDT by xzins

Ohio dropped the PARCC Common Core testing consortium Tuesday night after a series of complaints from educators and parents, including concerns from north central Ohio.

Gov. John Kasich signed a compromise two-year budget which concurred with Ohio Senate and House leaders that the Math and English exams would end in Ohio.

According to a report, Ohio spent $26 million in online and print testing last year.

“The people of the state of Ohio seem to have spoken loudly that they don’t want the PARCC,” State Sen. Peggy Lehner told reporters.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: 2016election; commoncore; education; election2016; johnkasich; kasich; ohio; parcc
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To: metmom; wintertime; JenB; Tired of Taxes

A little bit of good news in Ohio.


21 posted on 07/01/2015 3:08:00 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued (The War on Drugs is Big Government statism)
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To: SunkenCiv

:>)


22 posted on 07/01/2015 4:20:36 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

What happened to the old books?


23 posted on 07/01/2015 4:24:02 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Grampa Dave

My wife’s a great believer in Saxon because it simply lists the lessons from k-12, whatever that might be....a thousand steps...(I don’t know). What it boils down to is they build on one another.


24 posted on 07/01/2015 4:24:40 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: editor-surveyor

My guess is the district junked them.


25 posted on 07/01/2015 4:25:03 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

Brilliant!


26 posted on 07/01/2015 4:27:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: editor-surveyor

Teachers tend to save their copy of a text because there’s always some method used in such and such a lesson that they liked, but my guess is that districts put them in the landfill.


27 posted on 07/01/2015 4:29:30 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: Clintonfatigued; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

Just an update on something positive out of the public school establishment.


28 posted on 07/01/2015 5:20:42 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Jim from C-Town

Thank you. Standard math with an emphasis on word problems, which is what CC math tried to sell itself as, but than added all sorts of weird and inefficient computational techniques.


29 posted on 07/01/2015 6:16:51 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: grania
I have no respect for any teacher who went along with Common Core with or without objection.

Common Core hurts kids. No teacher should “go along” with anything that hurts children. No one is holding a gun to their heads. They hurt children for money, generous vacations, and a pension.

As for their jobs, everyone else in America has managed to find honorable work. Teachers could too.

30 posted on 07/01/2015 10:19:41 PM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: xzins

PARCC? Spell it backwards.


31 posted on 07/02/2015 6:51:29 PM PDT by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

With a slight stutter


32 posted on 07/02/2015 6:53:51 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: xzins

I can see offering trig, pre-cal, and geometry to some minor degree, but let’s face it...eighty percent of the kids in school today don’t need these skills. If we are pushing a bunch of kids toward this...we are simply wasting resources and time. If a kid is gifted and able to grasp this area of math...fine, open the door and find some method to introduce it. Otherwise, they need to think about the value of some of this stuff and the real world. It’s like offering chemistry or biology classes to a sixteen year old kid, who will end up as a baker’s assistant at Wal-Mart in two years.


33 posted on 07/03/2015 2:06:12 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: pepsionice

Forget the algebra, solid geometry, and any form of Calc in any form for all but the gifted in math.

Teach the kids how to balance a checkbook, pay bills, make change and do inventory to plan shopping.

After college, I use geometry in everyday driving/parking, walking,fishing, in my younger days archery shooting, shot gun shooting, rifle shooting and pistol shooting.

As, a Rube Goldberg home owner, flyfisher and kayaker, I use geometry and plain math every day. My bride of 50 + years is a type A OCDer in how she rearranges our house inside and out. I use pencil/paper, measuring tapes/sticks, levels and basic math to help position what is removed and replaced with. I have a DeWalt drill and driver to position the needed screws/holders/molly bolts, hanging wires for inside jobs. For my outside stuff, same stuff plus heavy duty tools to move stuff and to stand on during and after positioning.

After college, 50+ years later, I have never used Algebra, solid geometry or calc in any form even with a MBA and being in the Navy Security Group which required high math scores to be considered for the NSG and to be in a MBA program.

So quit wasting time and money trying to teach these unneeded math courses in mid and high school.

Teach basic real math, basic accounting, basic mechanics and electricity uses and cooking skills to prepare 99% of our kids for real life.


34 posted on 07/04/2015 11:44:43 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Rev. 22:11 Let the evildoer still do evil, the filthy still be filthy, the righteous still do right!)
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