GRIMM STATS:
* Across the state, the downward shift was similar: 31 percent of students passed the exams in reading and math, compared with 55 percent in reading and 65 percent in math last year.
* New York City still outperformed the state’s other large school districts — in Rochester, for example, only 5 percent of students passed in reading and math.
* Striking gaps in achievement between black and Hispanic students and their counterparts persisted. In math, 15 percent of black students and 19 percent of Hispanic students passed the exam, compared with 50 percent of white students and 61 percent of Asian students.
What? Were they FORCED to give minority students unweighted scores with respect to white children? That’s just not FAIR!
Where in the world is Matt Damon when you really need him? Just can’t trust these liberals.
So lets make the tests easier!
We need more stupid people with high self-esteem!
There is NOTHING like an idiot who is sure he knows better than you.
Give them all a trophy for participating
Without knowing the full scope of these test results, I can GUARANTEE you that when they look at results at children from broken homes and single parent families, they will find they did WORSE than children from normal homes with Mom and Dad at home every night.
This ain’t rocket science folks. You want your kids to do well, stay in school, stay off drugs, not get pregnant as a teen and stay outta prison?
Then get married. Have kids. Stay married.
Or.... You could try the Trayvon Martin approach.
As a mother of a recent 4th grader who took the test this year, I can tell you that myself and most parents didn't care if they passed the exam or not. Common Core should be called Crap Core because that is exactly what it is. Creative solving problem is a joke and should not a substitute for memorization, especially when it comes to math. I have had to teach my child multiplication memorization myself because he is not being taught to memorize his time tables anymore. Instead he has to figure out (as in the case of 10x10) little columns of 10's etc. which takes longer and is just plain stupid. Basically, I am homeschooling him at the same time as having him in the public school system, which is what many parents like me have to do. Common Core will not prepare these kids for the real world - it is just dumbing them down.
From what I’ve seen, Common Core is geared to the very bright who at a young age can think somewhat abstractly, and jettisons the average and lower ability students who at that age are better served by memorization and rote learning. It seems in line with the elitist future libs are preparing for us.
“”26 percent of students in third through eighth grade passed the tests in English, and 30 percent passed in math, according to the New York State Education Department.
The exams were some of the first in the nation to be aligned with a more rigorous set of standards known as the Common Core””
Common Core is the problem but anyone paying attention knew that would be the result of adapting it in schools.
What happened to the New York Regents exams for 8th grade students to enter high school? They’re sure not entering high school with results like that. Are they no longer given? Replaced with Common Core which does diddly squat?
My wife works in College Admissions in Ga. Had an applicant recently that had all straight “A”s in public high school, she could not pass the achievement tests to place out of math and english for dummies (not called that, but it is what it is) .
These remedial classes are required if basic knowledge and skills can not be demonstrated on the subject matter, and these classes are not counted as college course credits toward any degree.
Grade inflation, how does it work again?