Posted on 10/28/2015 8:02:04 AM PDT by george76
It's a not-so rosy report card for the nation's schoolchildren.
Math scores slipped for fourth and eighth graders over the last two years, and reading grades were not much better, flat for fourth graders and lower for eighth graders, according to the 2015 Nation's Report Card.
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Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged parents, teachers, and others not to panic about the scores as states embrace higher academic standards, such as Common Core.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
A couple of more years of “Common Core” and we can get that percentage up to 50% or even higher. Truly creating a citizenry of mindless robots to do the work of their elite masters.
“...not to panic about the scores as states embrace higher academic standards...”
Decade after decade the dumbing down of America continues but don’t panic.
This country suffers from a plague of EDUCATORS and a drastic shortage of TEACHERS.
For generations, American children, often from IMMIGRANT home where English was NOT spoken were taught in the “old fshioned” traditional methods. Those children, educated in the 3R’s grew up and built the greatest country in the history of the world.
Then the EDUCATORS stepped in and invented brand new modern ways to “teach”. There has been a dimutation in the academic success of each subsequent generation since.
How many High School SENIORS could pass through the EIGHTH grade testing of years ago? How many have been shown how to think? This is bad.
The simplicity of the teaching of the 1950’s led to the Tech world of today. Creative teaching is dumb.
Well, whatever we are doing now clearly needs to be doubled
Placing the effluent end of a sewer pipe smack in the middle of a meadow has consequences.
I think the goal is robotic children who are not allowed to think for themselves.
Well that certainly is comforting. IDIOT
So, Arne. It will take how many years for Common Core to kick in completely? Meanwhile, parents are just going to have to be "patient" while their children do not learn enough to be ready for college.
What you are doing is cause for a class action lawsuit.
At 75 NYC schools, all the students in at least one grade recently failed the state math or reading tests .
At roughly a quarter of city schools, at least 90% of students failed the exams.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/75-city-schools-excel-failure-article-1.1915473
The ones who suffer are the 40th - 80th percentiles (or so). They're the ones who can improve dramatically with necessary attention and inspiration. They're the ones being left to fend for themselves.
Kind of like our middle class....the middle is just withering away.
My children were on the beginning of this dumbing down of America. Fortunately they learned much from me and the grandparents, we taught them much before even kindergarten.
Unfortunately some of the parents in that era did not, and their children became teachers. There was the beginning of Dumb teaching Dumber and so on and so on until we have by Gov't design what we are seeing today.
For all you teachers that are Really smart this is not meant to be a discredit on your part, but you do know what I am saying is true.
What % of teachers can pass a grade. Get rid of DOE and we will solve this problem.
That is the price of a nice private college per year - tuition, room and board, plus airplane trips back home to visit the folks.
Over the course of K thru 12 the price can be somewhere close to $400,000 per student.
All taxpayer money, that is from us.
$400,000 would easily put anyone through medical school.
A lot of schools are looking to fill seats - for the tax dollars. They’re looking for warm bodies. Tax dollars paid per body.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3353814/posts
Way to go “educators”...maybe you just need more money “for the children”?
Get YOUR children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
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