SJW math:
Posted on 11/03/2019 4:14:51 AM PST by DOC44
Years after Common Core made its debut in many state education systems, the disastrous long-term results of the program are finally being seen.
The students’ reading assessment paints a grim picture of educational readiness, with tested fourth and eighth graders failing to best the previous test’s results. This year’s results were only marginally better than those from 1992.
The mathematics scores show the most damning results — an upward trend until the year 2015, when the momentum seemed to grind to a halt. Although there were double-digit gains since the ’90s, fourth graders only managed to score a single point above their previous tests. Eighth graders failed to meet that low standard, sinking below their predecessors from two years before.
This failure in U.S. schools comes at a time when Chinese students appear to be blowing American children out of the water.
If we expect our future engineers, scientists, and mathematicians to compete in an increasingly globalized world, it’s clear that Common Core needs to be abandoned.
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They can’t write it so they can’t read script. CC math is ridiculous. Kids hate it. Go back to the 3R’s.
And a pox on the teachers who knew this.
Wait. What? You mean 2 + 2 doesn’t = 5?!?
“The study of math and science is the same universally and is not malleable to the “needs” of those who study it. Education cannot be geared to assuaging the wounded mentality of students.”
What, you haven’t heard of feminist math?
https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2017/03/02/another-breakthrough-in-feminist-mathematics/
School systems could care less about educational readiness it’s all about state money received it’s why they never fail a student no profit in it.The students who do learn do it for the most part do it on their own.
Schools are now just a dumping ground for six hours no wonder our students rate 16th in the world.
Give every kid in the world a math test. If they score in the top 50% I say give them citizenship.
DeVos will be unemployed after 2020. nothing she could do.
I think I might take that bet.
Our Democrat politicians and swamp dwellers never needed bribing, evil comes to them naturally.
So what is she going to do about it?
SJW math:
Only if they also score in the top 50% in math and English and history.
Educators ignore the most basic goal of any education.
Students should study in order to make themselves more valuable.
Geeee. But that’s where it becomes complicated.
Valuable for what?
Acquiring wealth?
Managing relationships better?
Being good at those two things, together, is the fastest way to become happier.
The challenge of educators is to get students to take a personal interest in becoming valuable. Any computer is better at teaching the 3Rs.
Therefore, educators have to make learning relevant.
Otherwise learning become rote and boring. And, only the self-motivated will thrive.
We have technical means to make each students learning tailored to that student.
Some are never going to learn past a certain point, they are not losers, they are quitters. Make that OK.
Show them ways to contribute and be valuable outside of academics that they feel are irrelevant.
I hated English and composition. But I gradually realized that the better I could communicate ideas, the faster I would be more valuable.
Yep, I graduated in '62, but when finishing by bachelor's I found that I needed a math course to complete my degree (1966). Never, fond of algebra and scared of calculus, I asked for an entry level math course. I was put in "Algebraic Principles of New Math"--whatever the hell that was. We learned about sets in elementary school but didn't know it at the time. "You can't add apples and oranges unless you call them fruit." --Simple, easy to understand.
Well, just for fun they decided to make that complicated with base this and base that. Now, I had no objection to logic or reasoning, but when I found that you needed 21 steps to prove that 1 is greater than 0, I lost it.
I did manage to escape the course with a C.
What interfered with that balance?
But the big thing, since you asked, is something passed in 1965 (part of the Great Society) called Title I which among many other things governs Special Ed kids. As time has gone by, more and more things have become “special”—including behavior disorders. As soon as a kid is given an I.E.P. (Individualized Education Program, i.e. officially “special”) a school has to jump through several hoops to impose any punishment at all for virtually any misbehavior, including assault on a teacher.
Parents of special kids basically have a school district by the short hairs. Most don’t know it, but those who do can make life miserable for teachers, staff and administrators. Even small districts will have on staff someone who makes sure all t’s are crossed and i’s dotted—it is a very big deal. As a bonus parents of ‘special’ students can qualify for SSI from Social Security. This is called ‘crazy money’ in some places.
So things that worked, or at least somewhat worked to keep discipline in schools have been taken away and pretty much replaced by nothing. If a school or district is lucky and has students that don’t constantly act out, then things are pretty good. But if the percentage of ‘feral’ children gets too high, education for all but the most strong-willed is nearly impossible.
How effective has DeVos been overall? Unless she’s totally stealth in everything she does, I don’t notice that America’s schools have improved.
“There is no curriculum that meets the needs of all students.”
I suppose by “curriculum” you means teaching methods. And there are no teachers who can jump through all the hoops simultaneously and be a personal tutor to each student.
In a competitive world, the curriculum is mandatory as far as what is offered. Those of us who are not math geniuses study something else, for example. But the study of basic simple math is not optional.
I have a problem with the meme “meeting the needs of student.” There should be more emphasis on “measuring up.” Athletics, for example, are not designed to meet needs; success depends on hard work and developing the necessary skills.
Ditto school curriculum.
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