Posted on 05/03/2018 8:04:27 AM PDT by NOBO2012
By the 21st century everyone needed brains but unfortunately nobody could read well enough to locate them.
Obama with some guy in the neighborhood working side-by-side on the Annenberg Education project.The former bomber and co-founder of the communist terrorist Weather Underground organization was Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The two had worked together closely from the year Ayers hosted a political launch party for Obama, in 1995, to 2002. At the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, the brainchild of Bill Ayers, they funneled more that $100 million to radical groups like ACORN and Gamaliel, which used the funds to promote radical education. AIM
Ayers, after escaping punishment in 1980, used his position at the University of Illinois at Chicago, to spread his revolutionary ideas throughout the educational system--in the classes he taught, the books and articles he wrote, the conferences he attended, the dissertation committees he sat on, and the political connections he fostered with Barack Obama and Arne Duncan on the Annenberg Challenge.
Duncan talked about the sea-change in assessments under Common Core. Darling-Hammonds tests, he said approvingly, would address deeper learning. Diagnostic or formative assessments will measure student growth, and determine whether students are college-and-career ready. Much in line with Ayerss pedagogical strategy, Duncan hailed the forthcoming Assessment 3.0 that will shift from seat-based learning to competency-based learning. The next frontier in assessment research, said Duncan, is in non-cognitive skills.
Somewhere in the urgency to measure non-cognitive skills the educators forgot that seat-based learning such as reading, writing and rithmetic were actually the competency skills that indicate if children are being educated as opposed to brainwashed.
“67% Not Proficient in Math”
So 3 out of 4 students can’t do math!
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