Posted on 12/03/2016 9:35:55 AM PST by magna carta
Trump's voucher plan is garnering much support. Let's look at it and see the good, the bad, and the ugly. Only through proper analysis can we make the proper educational course corrections.
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You and extremes “points” are spot on.
I agree with both.
David Coleman is the president of the College Board
https://www.collegeboard.org/about/leadership/david-coleman
Coleman, 42, was an architect of the Common Core State Standards which to date have been adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia. He is a Founding Partner of Student Achievement Partners, a nonprofit organization devoted to the successful implementation of the Standards, where he leads the organization’s work with teachers and policymakers to achieve the promise of the Common Core to improve education.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120524064147/http://press.collegeboard.org/releases/2012/college-board-names-david-coleman-new-president
Now, Coleman is in charge of the most important test score a student can receive. As president of the College Board, a national education company, he is redesigning the SAT, the standardized test taken by many high school seniors as a part of the college application process. He is also expanding the Advanced Placement program, which offers college-level classes and tests for high school students.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/30/david-coleman-common-core-sat_n_3818107.html
New information on Common Core “alignment” by the ACT, SAT, and even GED exams raises questions about the impact Common Core will have on private and homeschooled students and their ability to “opt out” of the federally incentivized standards if they want to apply for college.
David Coleman, new head of the College Board—which administers the SAT—said in an interview with Education Week that one of his top priorities is to align the SAT with the new standards. “The Common Core provides substantial opportunity to make the SAT even more reflective of what higher education wants.”
http://dailysignal.com/2013/06/23/common-cores-nationalizing-tentacles-sat-act-and-ged-alignment/
Amnesty and Common Core: Two Sides of the Same Coin – Part I
“economic justice goals of Common Core as presented by David Coleman”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3296550/posts
Bridges at School is a topical curriculum developed for American middle school classrooms. Contextualizing the Arab World and providing a unique series of both critical thinking and creative lesson plans that shed light on the rich historical, scientific, mathematical, religious, and cultural legacy of the region, this program focuses on the themes of global citizenship and identity through a series of analysis-based lesson plans. Bridges at School highlights poetry and values-based paired texts; fashion and style; visual art; food and spice; drama; music; language; medicine and science; and mediaDevelopment funding for Bridges at School is courtesy of Donna Pearson Chapman and The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.
https://bridgesofunderstanding.org/education/
Bridges at School | Arab Contributions to the Sciences
https://www.nextlesson.org/project_details/bridges-at-school-arab-contributions-to-the-sciences/c4d2c06d5478c5e18f499543fb020833e6396dd5e8698dcd8e8eab77 Select "Preview"
Common Core pages 3, 13
See also the sample lesson plan given on pages 16-20
http://www.excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors/
http://web.archive.org/web/20130301033627/http://excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors
http://www.excelined.org/about-us/reform-agenda/
http://www.excelined.org/common-core-toolkit/common-core-toolkit/
Her statements that she does not support Common Core are not credible. She has for years sat on the Board of Bush's common core promoting foundation and her own foundation pays for the development of common core lesson plans.
I’m very aware of who Coleman is. He made some contradictory comments here:
Agree - she’s not going to kill Commie Core
That is an interesting article although I think Coleman is blowing a little hot air in it.
“For now, his plan is a giant step in the right direction. he also stated a desire to let States control curriculum instead of the Feds - that’s a step in moving the government out of the business.”
Getting a slice here, and one there.
The right had better start understanding this and stop acting like the whole thing is going to flip in one toss because they don’t have any patience.
That is why we have the education system we have today! The left was willing to get it in small slices until we woke up one day and found out that little boys are coming to school in dresses and using the girl’s room.
Yep
“Trump needs to abolish the DOE first”
How about we cut this thing down to size bit by bit, like the left managed to do to get this thing where it is today?
This is why the right doesn’t have jack to show for ourselves.
We demand the biggest thing first, get a crap ton of opposition, and then end up with nothing done.
How to eliminate the Dept. of Education? Calculate the monetary value of how much the DOE spends annually on each state, then give states the option of opting out of oversight and assistance from the Dept. in exchange for an annual block grant that amounts to 50% of the education money they would normally receive. Having half the aid they normally get but being able to spend it as they see fit while escaping the shackles of the DOE would be a no-brainer for most states. It would also save the money from the Federal budget
That's a choice one can make and I too went this way for awhile, but don't think you may do this the entire time as life rings uncertainties so at least think about others who can't homeschool and are not wealthy enough to choose a private school. You still pay taxes regardless. On another note, I have learned from experience that homeschooling isn't always the best method especially when it comes to social skills. I'll advise against it to anyone who asks. Let your kids grow up and learn what the majority of kids learn and have fun and be a kid.
Who cares about chartes and all that? The important thing is that public education withers and dies.
My concern is with the education of MY child, not other children - that is their parents job.
DOE has been putting out snowflakes for a long time well over 40 years, that won’t change in 4 years.
We do but we love it. I am retired (DD was a very late baby) as is my husband so we have the time and the funds to focus on her. We started teaching her as a newborn. Her education is paramount.
Again not my problem. The Education system has been broken for generations, and the teachers suck and are brainwashed. The few good teachers who are not libs are drummed out. That will not change anytime soon no matter what Trump does or does not do. Which is EXACTLY why I am homeschooling. She will have advantages well beyond other children and that is fine with me. Frankly I would like to see public schools disappear altogether.
If you think that is ‘selfish’ so be it. She is my priority.
Agreed and thank you. Put your children first as all parents should.
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The education system as it currently stands is not an education system, it is pure secular indoctrination in false tenets.
The quicker it dies, the better for all.
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// uncertainties so at least think about others who can’t homeschool and are not wealthy enough to choose a private school. //
I am wealthy enough to send her to the best private schools. They are still not good enough. My husband and I have (combined) 9 college degress and I taught at a private school.
She can get social skills in other activities and Home school groups so that argument is false.
They need to think about themselves and their children. For far too long people have relied on schools to rear their children. We do not. Sadly I do pay school taxes and that won’t change although I do support exemptions for those not in public school.
God forbid I let my daughter be influenced by foul mouthed children with liberal parents who have little morals (such as the local school). I grew up as a little adult with a checking account at age 7 and a once a year allowance from land rent who had to budget and pay my own medical bills and private school tuition. That may not be ‘kidlike’ but it taught me to be a productive, successful adult rather than a snowflake, whiner, or live in my parents basement until I was 30.
Absolutely!
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