Posted on 03/11/2016 6:29:05 AM PST by Academiadotorg
The “Common Core” test should be applied to EVERY politician before you vote for them. Anyone who thinks the government can fix anything is an automatic NO. Anyone who thinks the individual come first, deserves further consideration.
ok, you convinced me.
I’m not sure when common core came in, my youngest child is 45 so I have been out of the ‘education’ for a while, but it is my understanding now that it was put in there to run the States and how to ‘dumb down’ our children as a way to spend more money per student with less education...
& nobody writing about it seemed to notice but us. None of the talking airheads ever brought it up.
I realize the author probably wants to sound smart, but isn't using a simpler and better understood term an improvement? Wouldn't that be more effective?
He didn’t because he doesn’t understand it. Like most issues he has no real depth of knowledge and therefore no ideas of how to fix things. But I am sure that it will be wonderful.
Some years ago, needing more revenue, the school faced the question of admitting non-Catholic students. Ultimately the issue was finessed in favor of admitting such students with certain understandings: Catholic students are required to respect the faith commitments of non-Catholic students and vice versa; all students are to attend a Tridentine Mass (old Latin rite) on each First Friday of the school year and to attend daily rosary. Those last two requirements do not require non-Catholics to participate either in Mass or rosary but the school has no surplus personnel to supervise them during Mass or rosary. Non-Catholic parents have yet to object to the school's decisions in these respects. When it comes to quality education, Catholics and non-Catholics can work together for the best interests of their children and society.
The school is administered by lay people but they are not chosen on the basis of incestuous "edjumakashun" degrees but rather on the basis of their commitment to the educational and faith commitments of the school. As a result, though the school does not cherry pick its students and has graduated a few kids with substantial disabilities of intellect or psychology, its students are two years or so ahead of parochial as well as public schools.
A sampling of why: Saxon Math, Fr. Henle's WW II era Latin texts (starting in later stages of grammar school), Samuel Eliot Morison's Oxford History of the American People supplemented by Schweikart's Patriot's History of the American People (the former having been the standard text at Harvard for many years), world history by former Yale Academic Dean Donald Kagan and his associates. Rigorous requirement of grammar and syntax without vulgarity, not just as courses but also on all papers and examinations and oral classroom responses. Quality texts for quality education. A Catholic culture open to admission of other students, Catholic moral standards shared by most conservative Christians, an understanding of American exceptionalism, a commitment to quality education.
The school does administer qualification examinations for incoming students in order to determine what grade they are ready for. Incoming kids (including many from parochial schools) must choose between catching up in summer school before admission or starting at an earlier grade level than they had attained in other schools. Once they find their level, they tend to do well. Each kid has only one chance at an education and it is more important by far to get that right than to do it quickly. There is no notable hurry that justifies second rate education or second rate morality.
There are numerous schools like this (independent of one another) in Illinois and elsewhere. To the extent that they grow in numbers and geographical spread, along with similar Reformed Christian academies and Chassidic Jewish academies, our nation, our civilization and, most importantly, our God will be served in the future. Keep such efforts in your prayers.
God bless you and yours!
Your son does know, I am sure, that everyone on the stage last night, except Kasich, is against it.
he does and I pointed that out, but he first heard trump say it and so he and his 13 year old friends want trump.
He is only 13, but his older brother who goes into the marines in two months is now able to vote for the first time in his life and is voting Trump too
absolutely NO reason in the world some assclown in D.C. should be telling folks in West Texas what they should be studying.
Keep the dumb asses of D.C. from running your existance.
That’s the dearest story. “I want him”. How funny.
The parent videos of struggling, miserable, crying girls and boys crawling through their Common Core math home work was heart breaking. CC seems like trickery and an intentional method for demoralizing young students.
Put it together with removing recess for little boys and you get.... RITALIN.
I think she is not a fan of the Governor as he is the one who embraced Common Core.
She teaches English Lit, and her biggest beef is that it forces her to teach substandard material out of approved textbooks rather than the Great Classics.
She teaches at a charter school. As the Governor here in PA has declared war on charter schools she is even less of a fan of his.
funny you should mention that, we are doing a school choice round-up and covering that. BTW, I am a native Pennsylvanian.
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Lets not forget the 100 grams of sugar that are in Michelle’s healthy school lunches!
I never understood why either.
I did hear a news clip today that Trump mentioned Kasich was pro Common Core, but he didn’t emphasize it enough and went on to spend far more time condemning him about NAFTA & TPP.
He really is missing out on this issue, IMO.
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