[Joann37]

I’ve seen this letter several times, but it is meaningless without seeing the original Common Core problem and methodology for solving it. Has anyone seen it?

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Common Core Cant - Advocates cite dubious polling to support their claim that the issue is settle "With the Common Core State Standards encountering remarkable political turbulence, you might think advocates would focus their energies on making their case and answering critics. After all, just yesterday Indiana became the first state to reverse its decision to adopt the Common Core. Instead, leading advocates seem intent on using junk polling to say, “There’s nothing to see here.”

Yesterday, the Collaborative for Student Success — a mishmash of substantial educational philanthropies — released a poll that purported to show that Americans love the Common Core even if they don’t know it. The new poll showed that two-thirds of respondents like the Common Core and that one-third “strongly” support it. This is pretty remarkable given that, just last summer, over 60 percent of respondents told Gallup they had never heard of the Common Core. What explains the remarkable shift? It turns out that the positive response was elicited after pollsters read just “a single sentence describing” the Common Core.

That “single sentence” explained: “To ensure that all students are prepared for success after graduation, the Common Core Standards establish a set of clear, consistent guidelines for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level across subjects.” (The astonishing thing is that 24 percent of respondents disapproved even after this explanation.) Fifty-seven percent of Republicans reportedly support the Common Core, thus described, and 60 percent of respondents would be more likely to vote for a pro–Common Core candidate.".....................................

[Joann37]

Yikes - is that it, the graphic at the top of the letter?

[quietly desperate]

The number line is wrong. There is no 117. You can’t get the right answer.

[txrefugee]

This is the asinine “new math” of the ‘70s recycled by the ignorant educates, who can’t manage to teach today’s students such rudimentary mathematics skills as the multiplication tables or how to measure with a ruler and yardstick.

[Whenifhow]

4 Minutes
Glenn Beck: Common Core Frustration

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am3nqUMQJV8

Glenn Beck: Anti-Common Core Dad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4d5gaISWbg

Glenn Beck: Teacher Resigns Because Of A ‘Disturbing Era In Public Schools’

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWXL1i2Xvo

Teacher’s Resignation Letter After 25 Years Describes ‘Disturbing Era’ in Public Schools

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/03/24/teachers-resignation-letter-after-25-years-describes-disturbing-era-in-public-schools/

[Shery]

I tutor a third grader on Tuesday afternoons. He took out his math homework and we proceeded to work through them as much as possible, but it was difficult. I am an RN and can still do algebra, etc. at age 65. One sheet was similar to this and I could not figure out how to explain the process to the boy so he could work the problems. I could not even explain how THEY (Common Core) got their answer, and this doesn’t even take into consideration the multiple errors I have found, just working with this kid on one day a week! This is the worst program I have ever see. I was a school nurse before retirement. I used to help students sent to my office for a “cooling off” period, and at times, I’d go to my husband’s classroom to help students when he needed assistance there. DoDDS at one time had a math program that was a similar nightmare, although, once you got used to it, one began to see how to use it better than this CC nightmare! There are also grammatical errors in the LA portions, as well, not to mention out and out distortions of American history! I’d be taking my own kids out of this mess, if I were a parent, and either place them in a good Christian school, or homeschool them.

My kids told me later that they wished I’d home schooled them through 8th grade, then let them enter HS. We thought of that, but with my husband being an educator, that was not looked upon very well. But, I should have, anyway. I think we could’ve avoided some of the weaknesses they struggled somewhat with. One 3rd grade teacher asked me to teach LA to her students and I said that (I was unemployed at the time) I wanted to be available to substitute for teachers or the school nurse. Consequently, that class-—my own son’s 3rd grade class-—did not have LA that year. We did not know that until he went to 4th grade! We were really upset, and my husband talked with the principal, who eventually strongly encouraged her to retire. Along with the school’s curriculum, there is the matter of the teacher, as well. Parents who can, should homeschool.

[Organic Panic]

Dear Jack,

You are a typical white boy. You are respensible for killing polar bears, destroying the planet and oppressing women and minorities. Even with the elimination of all recess and play you have not been able to focus long enough to get this simple math problem solved. Even with Michelle Obama’s new menu of arugela and quinoa your brain is simply not capable of processing what is right in a math problem that was solved wrong. Here is your ritalin and you are to be sent to special needs class.

[onedoug]

The poet Emily Dickinson lived from 10 DEC 1830 to 15 MAY 1886. Upon completion of “high school” from the Amherst Academy in 1847 she had the equivalent of a modern Bachelors degree and then some.

If this doesn’t signal a downturn in American pedagogy I don’t know whatever will.