Posted on 12/03/2019 7:34:14 AM PST by yesthatjallen
An international exam measuring student achievement around the world found that U.S. students have largely not improved since 2000, despite efforts to boost reading and math skills among American children.
The Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) test results released Tuesday show that U.S. students were slightly above average in terms of reading ability but below the math skills level of peer nations.
The test, which was administered to U.S. 15-year-olds, also revealed a widening achievement gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students, with as many as a fifth of 15-year-olds in the U.S. not reading at a 10-year-old's level.
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One Harvard education professor told The New York Times that the exam's results showed that educators in the U.S. were not implementing Common Core standards, which were meant to boost U.S. students' competitiveness around the world, efficiently.
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Wow. The Education Trifecta. A Harvard professor, the New York Times, and Common Core.
Like Communism, Common Core will work once it's properly administered.
I am of the opinion that Common Core HURTS students with regards to math and reading. Especially everyday math.
Students educated in Common Core will tell you that 20% of the time, it works every time.
Math not good if want to be Communist
Because too much emphasis is on social concerns such as LGBT, how to properly use certain devices, etc. Math? Reading skills? Science? and so on.
Common Core would be fine as long as you never wanted to achieve anything in life, and just live under a bridge.
1. Teaching Math In 1950s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?
2. Teaching Math In 1960s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price, or $80. What is his profit?
3. Teaching Math In 1970s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?
4. Teaching Math In 1980s
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80 and his profit is $20. Your assignment: Underline the number 20.
5. Teaching Math In 1990s
A logger cuts down a beautiful forest because he is selfish and inconsiderate and cares nothing for the habitat of animals or the preservation of our woodlands. He does this so he can make a profit of $20. What do you think of this way of making a living?
Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the birds and squirrels feel as the logger cut down their homes? (There are no wrong answers, and if you feel like crying, it’s ok. )
6. Teaching Math In 2009
Un hachero vende una carretada de maderapara $100. El costo de la producciones es $80. Cuanto dinero ha hecho?
7. Teaching Math In 2013
Who cares, just steal the lumber from your rich neighbor’s property. He won’t have a gun to stop you, and the President says it’s OK anyway cuz it’s redistributing the wealth.
Moving forward with common core, I doubt it will prepare students to become accountants or IRS agents, etc.
Hanging out in public school will do that.
Common core will NEVER WORK at the national level. Students in different parts of the US have different needs in curriculum makeup and learning styles. Students in north GA have different curricular needs than students in Atlanta and in rural south GA. Curricula need to be under local control with basic required courses. At the base of student learning and achievement are a committed administration and dedicated skilled teachers all of which are supported by the community and parents. It can be done on a school by school by system basis. Of course there must be a safe disciplined learning environment.
It is not just Common Core.
Teachers do not teach anymore. Nearly 80% of the time students’ spend in public schools is spent on testing and not educating.
Keep mainstreaming the mentally handicapped, the austistic, the ones who can’t handle a school curriculum. keep passing tyrone and shanika because of skin color. keep pooping in the soup and you have poop soup. GET the kids OUT of school that don’t want to be there, don’t belong there and give more money to gifted programs , STEM an Music.
Get rid of Common Core. It has made learning (and therefore scores) plunge anywhere that it’s been implemented.
But as with Communism, as you say, observable disastrous results mean nothing.
Around here, teachers only excel in protesting teachers’ pay. The media are always promoting their complaints and report on them as if what they are doing is sacred. At least 50% of our schools are failing and they have the nerve to demand increases.
Thanks for the scary chuckle.
well maybe they should start teaching those things and quit trying to raise the kids.
U.S. Students are NOT FROM AMERICA.
Mushrooms, only now they’re not the fun guy to be with.
If the US Dept of Education had the guts it would test public school students against private school, charter school, and home-schooled students.
The methods do, however, provide a way for progressive teachers to ensure that slower and unmotivated students are promoted in system that encourages ignorance and tolerates misbehavior.
(Some) charter schools, private schools and home-schooling are the way to go if you can financially swing it.
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