Posted on 12/10/2019 6:25:18 AM PST by george76
It’s a jarring statistic, so much so that it became a talking point among Aspen school board candidates in the runup to the most recent election: At Aspen Elementary School, a mere 41 percent of students were deemed proficient in reading against the state’s standards.
“I think this should be an all-hands-on-deck solution now. I suspect there are curriculum alignment issues: it’s not one teacher; it’s not one kid; it’s not one bad day,” newly elected Katy Frisch said during a school board candidate forum in October. “It’s completely unacceptable.”
Johnathan Nickell, who won the other open board seat in November, attributed at least part of the slip in performance to the state’s adoption of the Common Core curriculum
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state standards shifted to Common Core
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Those standards — formally known as the Colorado Academic Standards — were officially adopted by the Colorado State Board of Education, or SBE, in 2009. A year later, those standards adopted Common Core.
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41 percent reading proficiency ranking comes from the Colorado Measures of Academic Success, or CMAS, which is the third iteration of assessment since the 2010 Common Core adoption
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Aspen isn’t the only school district struggling with keeping up with state standards for early literacy. Roaring Fork School District Superintendent Rob Stein also pointed to a disconnect between expectations and student performance on elementary CMAS English and language arts assessments.
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Basalt, Carbondale and Glenwood Springs comprise the Roaring Fork School District. Thirty percent of Basalt Elementary students ranked proficient in reading; that’s true for 32 percent of Carbondale’s Crystal River Elementary School and 31 percent of Glenwood Springs Elementary School.
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Wait until they see the math scores! Public education is producing students who are as dumb as sticks via Common Core.
I know a public school teacher, old guy a boomer, who is just a little bit left of Mao. He absolutely loves common core.
We surrendered public schools to the left, and this is what we get.
And no doubt the standards have been lowered as performance has fallen, so if the original standards were used, the present 41% would be lower. Common Core was an attack on the nation’s future.
I wonder how much the falling scores is attributable to Aspen’s immigrant population.
Leftists want low information Common Core slaves, not citizens who can think for themselves.
13 Baltimore High Schools, zero students proficient in math..
Scoring 30% on a math test is enough to graduate high school in NYC...
Unionized teachers and administrators keep their exorbitant tax payer funded pensions
The most universal rule of all multiverses and times: If progressives touch it it turns to excrement.
If you look at the landscape....the approaching problem is that these kids are coming up shortly for college entry tests, and their results won’t work in their favor for entry. Parents will be standing there with a 18-year old kid that they figured would be going off to some premier university, and the SAT scores won’t work. The kids who went to private schools or non-core environments....will get the university invitation and proceed on.
For the dismal scores kid? Maybe the intent is that you invent a pre-college ‘year’ where they have to learn real skills (like it was before common core), and waste $10,000 and an entire year....upgrading yourself.
“Public education is producing students who are as dumb as sticks via Common Core.”
But, but, it’s a wonderfully efficient way to produce Democrat voters.
Government schools are the problem.
The basic mechanics of teaching reading, writing and arithmetic are not hard. And they are not new. This stuff has been taught to kids for decades (millennia, really).
We pick up education fads that do not work (common core, whole language, etc.) when we should not have to. If something was working in the 1940s, it would work today.
The problem is the behavior of children, families, teachers, and unions. I would not expect government schools to deal effectively with these behavior issues.
I think school choice would work. Let families know that in order to attend the school, all children must adhere to certain behavioral standards. Trouble-makers will not be allowed. Then sit the kids down in the classroom and actually teach them the material. Watch all the scores skyrocket.
Part of the problem: many immigrants.
-2- in Detroit government schools: 93% not proficient in reading; 96% not proficient in math.
New York State killed literacy test for teachers in the name of diversity.
Parents too distracted to parent.
“Leftists want low information Common Core slaves, not citizens who can think for themselves.”
Agreed. They want citizens more concerned about feelings than facts. The problem they’ll eventually face is when the children they are grooming to be obedient stooges become upset. Eventually the masses will collectively have their feelings hurt by the totalitarian left.
But then again, once they repeal 2A, it won’t matter.
BEYOND EVIL...working hard to get our children as ignorant as the madrass morons.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism...
https://rense.com/general32/americ.htm
A more woke part of Colorado than the Roaring Fork Valley you’ll not find.
Are many (or any) states deciding to reject Common Core?
It’s obviously not working for the child’s benefit.
Here in California, the big deal used to be Self Esteem of the student. That got first priority far above proficiency.
Not surprised. My kids at the treatment center were dumb as rocks, and ALL of them were products of Common Core. Oh — trust me, on the surface, the insisted they KNEW everything, but were so woefully unprepared for life (and at some level, they knew it.)
Gee, and WHO got rich by imposing Common Core on a generation of kids?
Hint: someone who just bought yet another mansion, in Martha’s Vineyard
Gave Pearson a huge contract for Common Core and then....got a $65 million book contract. Wouldnt we love to see an audit of how many books sold to cover that $65 million contract?
Thats why admission tests are being eliminated.
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