Posted on 09/14/2016 7:27:10 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
The unpopularity of the Common Core educational standards is not causing its proponents to rethink it but to rebrand it. "In 2010, every state but Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia adopted Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English language arts," Joy Pullmann writes in the second edition of Common Core: A Bad Choice for America, published by the Heartland Institute. "Five years later, three in five Americans said they don’t know if Common Core is in their local schools."
"While 25 states have renamed Common Core to avoid a growing public backlash against these mandates, 43 states kept Common Core standards in some form and are now using them to teach students." In other words, most states are still using them but more than half the country is trying to dupe parents into thinking they are not.
During the campaign season, this subterfuge enabled certain Republican candidates for president to deliver full-throated denunciations of Common Core even while scarcely lifting a finger to do anything about it. For example, three states that abandoned Common Core classic for new Common Core were Indiana, New Jersey and Louisiana.
Now you can connect the governors.
Yesterday, I volunteered at the Boys and Girls Club, tutoring math with the seven year olds.
Ummm.. it was Common Core and even the volunteer college kids didn’t know what to do.
Designed to destroy our country, educational system and children and bring us down to the level of the savages.
Changing the name. Yeah, that’ll do it.
On the other hand, the reading and discussions in non-math areas is more challenging. I had one mark "Prefer to not answer" rather than pick among the bad choices on a political discussion that asked most important concern but listed only a few politically-correct topics.
My biggest complaint is the common core appears to create lazy, assembly line teachers that do not really teach. Especially where they have computer programs to rely upon instead of live teaching.
I used to occasionally ask those minorities brought into the college, who didn't know how to read or write (or pass a drug test) if they felt GOOD about their illiteracy.
Since they didn't know the meaning of "illiteracy" it went right over their heads.
EVENTUALLY it will catch up to them. THEN they can blame it all on...you know who.
Or, should I say: blame it on you know WHOM??
A bigger problem... common core and related focus skip writing legibly, does not include cursive, and teachers, whether because of common core or not, don’t seem to care. My kids’ teachers do not even mark spelling and grammar errors! How do you get 100% with unreadable work? They do. Sad and frustrating.
Fifteen or twenty years ago, the same idea (or one very similar) was called “outcome-based education”. As parents and teachers learned more about it, they started to opposed it. So the bureaucrats simply called it something else. The program that dare not speak its name.
Common Core really shows itself in the math curriculum where apparently the steps to solve a problem are more important than the answer to the problem. The math teachers I know hate it.
cripes...they don’t show what the states are now calling it.
Florida = Sunshine Standards
Mississippi = Mississippi College and Career Ready Standards
Arizona = Arizona’s College and Career Ready Standard
Iowa = The Iowa Core
Tennessee = Tennessee Academic Standards
etc....
wiki gives a half way decent notice of the name changes by state ( though some not up to date)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_implementation_by_state
UNESCO ED
That damned career ready crap is just that. Trade schools and University take care of that. K-12 is about education, or it used to be. Educators schooled a generation that won a world war on two continents in a mere four years, and that included the folks who stayed home to manufacture the means to carry on the conflict in winning ways. So, that is the evidence that classic education needs to change???????????????
Cyanide by any other name...
Nonsense. Spend twenty minutes on youtube.
That's because if you do it right there are redundant methods to check your work.
I think Jindal did the same in Louisiana. Bragged about killing off Common Core (after stupidly supporting it), and then replaced it with “Louisiana Standards”...which just happen to look identical to Common Core.
Even in Texas, where we never signed up to it (one of a handful of things Rick Perry did right in trying to look like a conservative), our standards are quickly looking a lot like Common Core.
The bottom line is that if the Big Education wants it, THEY WILL GET IT...as long as the idiot parents keep feeding them students, that is.
“Fifteen or twenty years ago, the same idea (or one very similar) was called “outcome-based education”. As parents and teachers learned more about it, they started to opposed it. So the bureaucrats simply called it something else. The program that dare not speak its name.”
Same for “Whole Language” Reading. You ‘show’ a kid a word and expect him to learn its shape and form...and then remember that word (as opposed to phonics, or sounding it out).
After a generation of illiterate kids were raised in California, Whole Language became a LAUGHING STOCK in the country. So what replaced it? Why “Sight Words”. The idea is to learn a set of words by looking at them...yep, no kidding, and they’re used to this day
...and parents thought they had slain a monster by making Whole Language unacceptable.
That’s because if you do it right there are redundant methods to check your work.
I did teach math (not a specialist) for a few years and the idea of ‘checking your work’ was lost on all but the most motivated students. Checking your work and estimating your answer before trying to solve the problem were viewed as wastes of time by likely 95% of students and likely an even higher percentage by adult human beings who don’t to math for a living.
The new way gives you a grid that provides multiple ways of checking the elements of the original problem.
And before you get too proud of the way we were taught, give a step by step explanation for subtracting 1999 from 3000.
Don’t you call me nonsense.
THE CHILDREN, COLLEGE STUDENT VOLUNTEERS AND I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT THE QUESTION MEANT.
I GRADUATED WITH HONORS AND DID QUITE WELL IN MATH AND DON’T NEED YOU TO TELL ME TO SPEND 20 MINUTES ON YOUTUBE TO LEARN SOMETHING THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANYTHING IN MY LIFE.
UNDERSTAND?
If you can’t be bothered to learn the how and why, don’t give us anecdotes about the difficulty of the new method.
And if it has nothing to do with your life, why were you trying to help students?
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