Thanks to SoConPubbie for the post as well.
I’ve been reading these headlines for weeks about ‘this district drops CC’ and ‘that State drops that...’
...but none of it matters if no one is going to ask the hard questions of the respective Districts/States. Great to see it reported, but I’m skeptical anything will come of it if this is showing they were prepared to obfuscate. Almost rises to the level of conspiracy, but who’s going to prosecute?
-cynicus-
On the thread below, comments are directed toward math, but if you open the breitbart link, there is an audio on sound cloud that is a protest directed at Mike Pence (for tricking people into thinking they had repealed common core).
Note that in the breitbart article it tells what he was saying on the audio and the most important statement is last in the quote - “the damage can’t be undone”. And based on his previous statements in the article, because of common core, students will be at a disadvantage, doomed to working in fast food, service areas, because they do not have math skills.
So post 4 about reducing wages to third world status is spot on.
Common Core Blockbuster: Mathematician Dr. Jim Milgram Warns Common Core Will Destroy America’s Standing in Technology
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3199498/posts
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/09/01/Common-Core-Blockbuster-Mathematician-Dr-Jim-Milgram-Warns-Common-Core-Will-Destroy-America-s-Standing-in-Technology
Quote:
all of this is just a repeat of what went on 20 years ago in California – but this time, it’s national.”
“This time I don’t see any uniform or systematic way of getting rid of it,” Milgram said. “The only way you’re going to get rid of it is state by state and parent group by parent group. And if you’re lucky, industry will join you because high tech is ever a more important part of our economy.”
The bad news, according to Milgram, is that, returning to his experience in California in the ‘90s, if students had been in that system with the older, poor standards for three or four years, “the damage couldn’t be undone,” he said.