I don't disagree but math is math and science is pretty much science.
I believe there is validity in having an apples-apples comparison of math and science proficiency across states.
Knowing high school algebra should mean substantially the same thing across the nation. At the K-12 level, the meaning of photosynthesis, titration and metamorphosis should be substantially similar across the nation.
I would not support CC beyond math and science. The English language is too dynamic for the one size fits all approach of CC.
“I don’t disagree but math is math and science is pretty much science.
I believe there is validity in having an apples-apples comparison of math and science proficiency across states.”
I’m afraid I’m going to have to disagree again, ‘Science’ is not Science. Science is defined as a methodology a method toward discerning knowledge. That however is not what we were taught in schools as ‘science’, nor is it exactly what theses books CC proposes defines. In school they call predetermined theory’s like Man driven global warming, and Evolution science.
If they do anything at all to support theses assertions they do so with cherry picked ‘facts’ some of which aren’t even true much less the whole story. They haven’t concerned knowledge they have ignored the methodology and defined the results. So no, it is quite Obvious that ‘Science’ is not science. As least as far as our Government run ‘education system’ has been concerned.
As to the subject of math it seems allowing the folks in Washington to have anything to do with teaching our children Math is tantamount to having the devil teach man about God. Washington has been debt free for one time in the entire History of our ‘federal republic’ and that was almost 200 years ago in the time of Andrew Jackson. Yet anther fact most of my poorly educated countrymen know nothing of. Even then as now, their deliberate accounting methods were fraudulent. Depended entirely upon the selling of a finite asset(land) to resolve the debt, and only did it work for a short time.
No Washington has as much understanding of mathematics as a house cat and even less inclination to share it with anyone honestly.