Posted on 08/08/2014 6:54:04 PM PDT by markomalley
Following repeated requests from parents, the state of New York released the text of half the questions used in its new Common Core-aligned standardized tests. The test questions, used in tests for grades 3 through 8, include one question that encouraged students to cite evidence in favor of global warming.
included several short written pieces that students had to read and respond to in order to demonstrate English mastery. One such piece was an article originally published on NASA’s website, “The Summer of 2012 –Too Hot To Handle?” The article discusses the high temperatures and drought during the summer of 2012 and looks at whether ordinary weather fluctuations or CO2-driven global warming are to blame.
After reading the article, students were asked to cite the article to describe the overall effect of increased CO2 emissions on the planet’s atmosphere. While the article included input from climate scientists John Christy, a climate change skeptic, the students’ answers were directed to focus exclusively on claims in favor of CO2-driven climate change.
“A response receiving full credit will describe the effect of increased CO2 emissions by explaining the relationship between higher temperatures and increased CO2 in the atmosphere,” says an annotation provided for teachers afterwards. Several sample answers were included, with top-scoring answers describing CO2′s effects as including rising sea levels and higher surface temperatures.
“The effect of increased CO2 emissions is that the atmosphere becomes a heat source itself… Also the average surface temperature of the entire Earth increases,” reads one answer that was awarded a perfect score.
Common Core standards cover only math and English, and do not concern science standards. Nevertheless, critics of the standards have frequently asserted that the standards will be used to push liberal political causes, and questions like that on the New York exam are unlikely to appease them.
The exam questions were released in response to demands by parents and teachers in New York who were distressed when the state’s proficiency levels in math and English plunged upon the switch to the new tests. Common Core supporters say the sharp drops are to be expected since the standards are more rigorous than those used before, while the state department of education has resisted releasing the entire tests, citing a concern that teachers will merely “teach to the test.”
Now let's test you math skills!
Question: Which is cuter, a baby seal, or a baby polar bear?
My oldest boy was supposed to take these tests...we went out to the “museum of natural history” instead. To ld his teacher and the school principal that neither of my children would be taking these tests...ever.
Common core is a way of teaching children how not to learn
Common Core is B.S.!
Common Indoctrination
So much for those stupid common core commercials I have seen ad nauseum the last few months where the three so called teachers make it clear that common core is NOT political. LIE!!!! Time to defund common core.
Alternate lesson plan:
http://www.supercoloring.com/color-online/pages/ostrich-bury-head-sand/
Thank God Indiana dumped that sh*t already...
They can neither read nor write; they can’t do sums; and they can’t be called upon to list the presidents or the significant events in American history.
But they can spout Leftist rhetoric with the best commissars.
Time to get rid of Common Core.
The most potent greenhouse gas is methane. Polar bears fart. Therefore, polar bears are committing suicide.
Now let's test you math skills!
Question: Which is cuter, a baby seal, or a baby polar bear?
Baby polar bears a cutest when they are eating baby seals.
In NY in math, you learn that the median point is the “fair share”. I don’t know if it was on a standardized test but it was all over the homework, from the state website, assigned to my daughter. So it was unavoidable even if you “opt out” of the final test. One day I was so angry I wrote a note on the homework, told my daughter she didn’t have to do it (she already knew what mean, median and mode was anyway) and waited for a teacher reply. My only reply was that the teacher told my daughter she still got home work credit because I had written a note.
But it’s built into the everyday curriculum, not just a one day test.
People will tell you common core is not a curriculum. But it is the guideline that creates the curriculum. Ends up being the same thing.
I showed her the actual work being assigned and how it was actually easier, mindless and just a lot of busy work. Once you see what they're doing, it's not harder just “different”, dumbed down and pushing leftist ideology. Some parents assume “different” is harder or will teach “higher level thinking skills”. So not true. Take the time to look at it and it's drivel.
If you let your child go to a school where they use Communist Core, you hate your child. That's all there is to it.
Heh - Have one’s child simply cite the record of Ice Ages and interglacials that is available on Wikipedia. If they are advanced enough to understand it, of course!
bttt
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