Posted on 10/01/2015 7:32:43 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Well, it may not work terribly well but Common Core sure is expensive.
“The treatment of textbooks as mountains of words is one of the signature elements of Common Core,” Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars (NAS) pointed out at the National Press Club Monday.
In the past half-decade, the 26 states aligned with the Common Core has dropped to 7 but the price tag keeps increasing. “The Pioneer Institute estimates that the 7-year cost of Common Core is $16 billion,” Silicon Valley engineer Ze’ev Wurman said at the same Press Club event Wood spoke at. “The pro-Common Core Fordham Institute puts the seven-year cost at $3-12 billion.”
“In California, which as a line-item in the budget for it, the three year cost has been $5.2 billion. The original estimate in California was $1.6 billion.”
He worked in President George W. Bush’s Department of Education. By the way, both the Pioneer Institute and the Fordham Institute are right-of-center think tanks.
Wood and Wurman were in town at the Press Club for the book launch of Drilling Through The Core: Why Common Core is Bad for Education, Published by the Pioneer Institute. Despite the slow fade to irrelevance Common Core has experienced in K-12 education, quite a few institutions of higher learning have embraced it. “Three hundred colleges have accepted students with Common Core,” Wood noted. “What does that mean?”
“It means no more remedial education.”
Large expense for us, and guess who’s on the other side of that income statement?
Bill Gates and his crony capitalist gen21 nutjobs. And I’m sure Jeb’s in there somewhere as well.
http://www.menacommoncore.com/
What adds to the cost is that all the conferences are held in Dubai, not the USA. That might explain why common core kids are asked to recite shahada.
I’ve been tutoring my 10year old niece. She isn’t getting common core per se, but just reading the textbooks with the modern edu-tripe is enough to make your head spin. They have made it very difficult for kids to learn basic concepts like adding and subtracting.
and Pearson Publishing, PAARC, AIR, SBAC
How many college tuitions could that much money pay for?
“It means no more remedial education.”
How does it mean no more remedial education? It's like the article ends too soon.
It’s sure been expensive for me - lacking school vouchers, I have to pay dearly for private school to avoid Common Core.
...... Yes .... but when you use common core math (Which is probably based on the old "Million Man Math") to calculate the expense, as the Obama Administration uses, it actually becomes inexpensive!
The person responsible for Common Core, or rather the facilitator, was none other than William Ayers, PhD in Education at the University of Chicago and idea man for the Annenberg Challenge.
They took all the failed ideas that had been tested in the inner city schools since the 70s and sweetened them up and sold them as the answer to all of our educational woes.
Yeah, that’s right. Your kids are being taught teaching methods that were designed to make the inner city schools suck big time.
Ayers just happens to be a Marxist sympathizer who wants more than anything to see our country light up in a ball of flames.
Jeb Bush made millions promoting common core.
“Bush’s FEE itself received $3,500,000 from the Gates Foundation” In your browser search use: Bush’s FEE
http://michellemalkin.com/2015/03/18/jeb-bush-common-core-cronie-pearson-parcc-and-your-kids-privacy/
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