[Nachum]

Common Core Blockbuster: Mathematician Dr. Jim Milgram Warns Common Core Will Destroy America's Standing in Technology

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[Nachum]

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[PGalt]

“All of this should really make you angry at the people who are responsible,”

DISMANTLE the Dept. of Education (Indoctrination) and many in this alphabet...

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[Othniel]

There has been all manner of conflict between Milgram and another Stanford professor named Jo Boaler. Boaler's research into the teaching of math has shown that the more engagement is needed if kids are to learn the processes and calculations better than they do in a traditional, drill and kill setting. Her research, both in England and in the US, has gone on for years, and is available online and elsewhere. Boaler has worked with Stanford to offer free, online courses to teachers and parents to improve math fluency and knowledge. I've been teaching for 30 years, and I agree with Boaler's methods. That said, I think the math involved in Common Bore needs to be a lot less 'deconstructive' and more to the point of solving the problem by whatever means necessary.

Do a yahoo search for Boaler. To read about the war that has gone on between her and Milgram, go to this: http://web.stanford.edu/~joboaler/ and you can read about some of the unprofessional conduct Milgram has engaged in. Boaler advocates teaching math like the Japanese and other countries do: with a problem-base setting that allows the kids to explore and explain how and why they arrive at answers. It takes a lot of work on the part of the teacher to make it work, but it is worth it in the long run.

[nathanbedford]

“Even Microsoft has moved its software development to Beijing,”....Production and manufacturing has also moved out of this country,” Milgram added. “The longer this continues, the more we’ll see our major industry move over to other countries and the jobs they generate will go with them.”

Let us assume that you are conscientious enough to homeschool your kids or lucky enough to have them educated in an upscale suburban public school which does properly train them in mathematics and the hard sciences and even enables them to matriculate in an elite university where they not only get their ticket punched but actually learn what is necessary to compete in the modern, global economy.

Their problem is not their own qualifications but the absence of infrastructure. Those jobs will not be here but in Asia while we become a plantation for the intellectual elite of the East. Infrastructure does not just mean bridges and tunnels, it means a culture, a pool of able and educated workers and we are, in the quaint phrase of a generation ago, eating our substance. We are cannibalizing our infrastructure for political correctness and the devil take tomorrow.

[sphinx]

Math doesn’t lend itself to subjective grading and therefore resists efforts to engineer pc results.

[BobL]

Hard to believe that there are STILL some FReepers that send their kids to public schools - even after all this on Common Core.

Could it be that their little public school is immune from the disaster that affects the other 99% of the public schools...or is it that keeping junior out of public school is expensive, and may keep you from getting that boat (or truck) that you really, really, deserve?

[Bigg Red]

...if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a competitor in the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.

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All part of the plan.

[Lazamataz]

During a Friday conference call sponsored by Texas-based Women on the Wall, Stanford mathematician and former member of the Common Core Validation Committee Dr. James Milgram, told listeners that if the controversial standards are not repealed, America’s place as a competitor in the technology industry will ultimately be severely undermined.

What Milgram warns is a 'bug', OTrauma views as a 'feature'.

[wintertime]

what parents and citizens can do to try to stop them
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Caring parents will do what they have always done. They will take charge of their children's education. They will homeschool, afterschool, privately school, or hire tutors.

[matthew fuller]

For later.