Posted on 01/17/2018 11:16:30 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave a far-ranging speech today in Washington at an American Enterprise Institute conference, “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned.”
She announced the death of Common Core, at least in her federal agency.
DeVos also decried the federal government’s initiatives to improve education. “We saw two presidents from different political parties and philosophies take two different approaches. Federally mandated assessments. Federal money. Federal standards. All originated in Washington, and none solved the problem. Too many of America’s students are still unprepared,” she said.
And she touched on a favorite topic, school choice.
“Choice in education is not when a student picks a different classroom in this building or that building, uses this voucher or that tax-credit scholarship. "
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And if you’re going to cover Geometry and Algebra, you gotta include Cartesian Coordinates so you can solve geometry problems with algebra! ;-)
It’s called “Critical thinking”...which no commie dimwit ever wants the subject of their control to know how to do!
About time.
Ah, but there's the rub. Anyone can think "critically," but it takes a solid connection to Math and/or logic to make such thinking irrefutable.
EVERYONE has "reasons" for believing what they believe; the question is "are they VALID, demonstrable reasons?"
Otherwise, the modern sophist will "hypothetical" you to death with scenarios custom built to make their points seem reasonable.
Chip away Betsy.
WINNING! MAGA! I can’t wait for the LIB “educators” to lay an egg about this. Hahaha!
There is a lot of difficulty thinking about it, because our language has been corrupted, as “newspeak” predicted. Oddly enough, the reality of that language corruption dates all the way back to the founding of the country, as documented by Paine:SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.What "anti-Americanism” actually opposes is American society.Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
Socialism is naiveté towards government which is concomitant to cynicism towards society. Cynicism can be defined as “the conceit that ‘negativity is objectivity,’” and the sweeping judgementalism inherent in cynicism is inherently arrogant.
The reason journalism is so strongly drawn to socialism is that commercial general-interest journalism is at the same time self consciously negative (“If it bleeds, it leads,” “Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man”) and presumptuously convinced of its own objectivity. The negativity towards society can only be objective if negativity is objectivity.
So journalism is cynical about society. But since as Paine suggests government is in a real sense the opposite of society, consistency demands that cynicism toward society corresponds, not to cynicism about government but to naiveté towards it.
Very, very few people need math past Geometry. Only those really going to college need it.
“2. Has Devos simply renamed Common Core to something else?”
She won’t rename it, Congress will, and then they will fund it.
...and then, as usual, 20 years later the Republicans will figure out that they were tricked yet again.
HOORAY Betsy De Vos
YES!
Only through an UNaccountable bureaucracy could a monstrosity such as Commie Core have taken hold in the first place.
DISMANTLE the Dept of Education. Better left to the states or to the citizens.
BLOATED FEDGOV leviathan ALERT!
“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” - list of grievances; Declaration
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