In my experience (which includes a number of years working in academia) this sort of phrasing -- along with the vaunted "Critical Thinking skills" -- always means one thing, and one thing only: blindly accepting the wisdom of Marxism as the only solution to any problem. Independence of thought is stamped out: it's all settled science, so to speak.
Analytical?
Critical?
Don't make me laugh.
‘the Common Core is aimed at teaching students to be analytical’
No, it’s not. It is insidious in teaching Leftist propaganda and eliminating critical thinking. To quote Abraham Lincoln ‘you can fool some of the people all of the time. You can even fool all of the people some of the time. But you cannot fool all of the people all of the time’. This Admin thinks we are too stupid to see their ‘Common Core’ objectives. And Jan Brewer is on the verge of implementing Common Core in Red State Arizona.
If this is not stopped immediately it will make its way in to all areas of K-12 education, and that includes: Home schools, private schools, charter schools and parochial schools.
In the book, a mother and her son gather mushrooms in the forest, and she explains that, as with mushrooms, there also are poisonous people. Slapping his chest in pride, the boy says, “Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews!”
Is this is American public schools or a madrassa?
“In the book, a mother and her son gather mushrooms in the forest, and she explains that, as with mushrooms, there also are poisonous people. Slapping his chest in pride, the boy says, “Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews!””
Sounds like Occupy Wall Street, although they use the term “banker”, but you don’t have to be a historian to know what they mean by that.
The federal government has no business meddling in education whatsoever whether it’s public, private, or home-schooling. It is completely un-Constitutional for it to do so. There should be No Dept. of Education at the federal level.
Only the individual states and the citizens within those states should have a say over their education system. Only the states and local counties, cities, towns, etc. should have input on what kinds of schools they want, what the curriculum should be, and what standards will be.
The tentacles of the federal government are so intertwined with education at every level from preschool to elementary to secondary to colleges and universities that the only possible way to change it is for governors and state legislatures to simply refuse to cooperate with the feds when it comes to anything regarding education - especially they have to refuse to accept the feds money.
This Common Core crap is just more government control - unbelievable government control - which is the whole point. The federal government now sets the curriculum for schools??? And, by the way, many private schools are cooperating with this demonic thing too.
Many will say that the feds have been controlling public education for decades. There is some truth to that in that as the states took money from the feds, they had to dance to the feds tune and implement whatever stupid federal string was attached to that money. But, adopting this national curriculum is the final nail in the coffin in regard to the states having any real say in their state’s education system. That influence will now be totally dead.
The Federal Govt already has its own lesson plans for all the children. All that teachers have to do is download the Sunday email from this site and they can get all their handouts so they can keep the kids occupied while they get as much money as they can from taxpayers.
http://kids.usa.gov/index.shtml
Of course elites want a common education for the commoners. They so miss the days of Kings and Lords with assumed divine power to just order commoners around without being questioned. But we are not commoners who will bow to “betters” and concede that they know what is best for our children. Why? Because we use critical thinking every day as consumers. It is built into the system where we need to make wise purchasing decisions.
Common Core = Progressive Propaganda
Did school districts / states using Common Core see a decline in their pass rate? Were kids actually held back this year due to failing to meet Common Core test criteria?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with the Common Core State Standards themselves, from either a conservative or liberal point of view. They are not politically charged in any way. there is not one mention of abortion, guns, sex of any brand, or anything similar. Not a single one.
The problem is what it has ALWAYS been. Individual states, districts, and (worst of all) teachers inject these things into their curricula. Adopting Common Core will have no impact on these problems... either for the good or for the bad.
THIS is the problem that needs to be fixed.
Common Core is intended to address issues like: "We're moving from South Carolina to Missouri. Will my 4th grade daughter be on track in math?" The answer SHOULD be "yes, because the teaching standards are the same."
Before embarking on a crusade, read the standards themselves, and then go to your State Dept or Ed website and compare them to the State Standards that you have in place now.
Then form your own opinions. There is absolutely no need to take anyone's word on the issue.
http://www.corestandards.org/
Just yesterday a teacher here told me that in her 5th grade reading, not history, READING common core reading textbook there was a passage about the CONCENTRATION CAMPS THE UNITED STATES PUT THE JAPANESE IN DURING THE WAR. She said one of her students came up to her and told her there was a mistake in the book! But we know it is no mistake. They want a generation to grow up thinking the old US was the worst country in the world.