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New Data Show California Kids’ Math Achievement Took A Nosedive After Common Core
The Federalist ^ | MAY 16, 2018 | Joy Pullmann

Posted on 05/16/2018 5:44:24 AM PDT by george76

By 2014, California was the top state in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. Common Core erased all those gains almost immediately

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Before Common Core came along, California parents, faculty, and officials spent years developing some of the best-ranked K-12 math requirements in the nation. One result of their careful work was more than tripling the number of eighth graders who ranked proficient in math, and quadrupling the number of eighth graders taking algebra.

By 2014, California was the top state in the nation in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. That was the year Common Core went into place. It erased all those gains almost immediately,

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Obama administration pushed states into Common Core in 2010, but it started phasing into schools at the earliest in 2013, and more in earnest in 2014 and 2015. That’s right when all the achievement jumps off a cliff.

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evaluate how Common Core affects kids, the degradation of math instruction in a country already known for poor math instruction, the especially damaging effects on the most vulnerable kids, the lying to parents, students, and taxpayers about the quality of the classes their kids are taking and we’re all paying for.

(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: academicbias; algebra; americaindecline; arth; betsydevos; california; commiecore; commoncore; culturalmarxism; math; michigan; missionaccomplished; stalinisttactics
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To: txrefugee

They still need to figger the number of possible marriage permutations of all these weirdos: homos, bis, trannies, cross-dressers, pedos, closet homos, retards, vertically challenged folks, animals, polys, etc. /s


41 posted on 05/16/2018 7:50:21 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: ptsal
I tutor for money.

The kids are innocently ignorant but they need the help.

We share stories about the quality of education they receive.

They can't believe that old people can do math in their heads faster than they can with a smart phone.

42 posted on 05/16/2018 7:58:22 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Idiocracy is Prophecy!)
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To: george76

Wasn’t Betty DeVose supposed to eliminate common core?


43 posted on 05/16/2018 7:59:42 AM PDT by New Jersey Realist ( (Be Nice To Your Kids. They Will Pick Out Your Nursing Home))
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To: txrefugee
Do they still teach Math?

They started lowering math requirements when I was a freshman in high school in 1952.

44 posted on 05/16/2018 9:20:19 AM PDT by itsahoot (Welcome to the New USA where Islam is a religion of peace and Christianity is a mental disorder.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman

Tutoring was personally rewarding from a doing-good aspect.

One distressing feature was the parents using the “time” as free childcare.


45 posted on 05/16/2018 9:22:21 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: itsahoot
They started lowering math requirements when I was a freshman in high school in 1952.

wow, that was like, 100 years ago.

46 posted on 05/16/2018 9:23:08 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: george76

Trying to make a silk purse into a sows ear....nothing like “1+1=2; 2+2”4.....Common Core threw everything ‘cept the kitchen sink in showing 1+1=2 etc....acting instead of teaching.


47 posted on 05/16/2018 9:28:07 AM PDT by yoe
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To: New Jersey Realist
Ask a Question: (ask about common core removal)
48 posted on 05/16/2018 9:32:45 AM PDT by yoe
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To: New Jersey Realist

O.K. that didn’t get you anywhere, try this: https://twitter.com/BetsyDeVosED


49 posted on 05/16/2018 9:37:46 AM PDT by yoe
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To: ptsal

I only tutor math (Algebra through Calculus), Chem and Physics. No daycare there.


50 posted on 05/16/2018 11:49:26 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Idiocracy is Prophecy!)
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To: george76

I’m shocked, amazed and stunned! /sar/


51 posted on 05/16/2018 11:58:47 AM PDT by EODGUY (Mad-City Wisconsin...40 square miles surrounded by reality.)
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To: metmom; wintertime

“Thank you Saxon Math!”

What is REALLY SAD is that less than 2% of the people reading this thread have ANY CLUE as to what Saxon Math is.

And because they do not know, I’ll add a bit here:

In Texas, before Common Core, we had REAL Standards in our state, and I went through everything that I could find in my quest for a math program that actually met our standards. And, everywhere I looked, the software/books ALL told me how much ‘fun’ my kids would have learning math. But I had a BIG PROBLEM with that, because learning math is NOT ‘fun’, it’s hard work. But once learned, it is the TICKET to success in this country (as we both know).

So Saxon Math shows up. The books are written by John Saxon, and sometimes, a second person (as co-author). THAT IS IT. Go through the early pages and there are NO ‘diversity specialists’, or ‘inclusion specialists’, or any other crap. They simply have PROBLEMS, ingenious problems. When the kids learn to tackle those problems, they are ready to TAKE ON THE WORLD, as my kids, and your kids (for sure), did.

But, sadly, for most parents - we are CRAP - we ‘abuse’ our kids by making them study OUR MATERIAL, as opposed to trying to count the number of ‘identified’ genders as of 5/16/2018, or whatever.

But the BOTTOM LINE (and this will be difficult for some FReepers) is that the LAWS OF PHYSICS simply DO NOT suspend themselves because a certain ‘child’ learned ‘different’ laws, due to Common Core. In other words, there are ABSOLUTES, and if those ‘absolutes’ (i.e., not Common Core) are not followed, PEOPLE WILL DIE, and it’s that simple, and has been PROVEN over and over again.


52 posted on 05/16/2018 3:31:19 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: Red Badger
It’s absolutely the stupidest stuff you ever saw.


53 posted on 05/16/2018 4:03:39 PM PDT by Oatka (tHE)
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To: Oatka

I’ve seen stuff like that and worse.

God help us.


54 posted on 05/16/2018 4:15:25 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: george76

Sample common core problems:
1st: http://www.freedomworks.org/content/can-you-solve-these-common-core-math-problems

2nd: https://www.nationalreview.com/2014/03/ten-dumbest-common-core-problems-alec-torres/

100-Year-Old Math Teacher Slams The ‘Common Core’ Method
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7A2ZM7MnDM


55 posted on 05/16/2018 8:39:21 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: minnesota_bound

The 100 year old teacher is under common core not 100 but anything she wants it to be if if feels good.

BTW Jeb Bush accepted millions in bribes from the Pearson book publisher to push common core in Florida and elsewhere as they make a mint printing them.


56 posted on 05/16/2018 8:43:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: BobL

“What’s with the “/s/”.”

The “/s/” meant sarcastic. Indicating the message I gave is exactly what you are saying. We are in agreement.


57 posted on 05/16/2018 8:53:16 PM PDT by redfreedom
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To: george76; All

Quick question: does anyone on this thread consider themselves proficient in, and understand “Common Core” math?


58 posted on 05/16/2018 10:10:16 PM PDT by papertyger
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To: george76

Which is exactly what they wanted when they came up with common core.


59 posted on 05/16/2018 10:50:12 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: george76

Anyone else miss the “old days” when the term “close enough for government work” was a joke and not a real end result of our nation’s educational system?


60 posted on 05/17/2018 5:51:15 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult (When words can mean anything, they can also mean nothing.)
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