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Betsy DeVos: Common Core is dead at U.S. Department of Education
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution via WPXI ^ | January 17, 2018 | Maureen Downey

Posted on 01/17/2018 11:16:30 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave a far-ranging speech today in Washington at an American Enterprise Institute conference, “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned.”

She announced the death of Common Core, at least in her federal agency.

DeVos also decried the federal government’s initiatives to improve education. “We saw two presidents from different political parties and philosophies take two different approaches. Federally mandated assessments. Federal money. Federal standards. All originated in Washington, and none solved the problem. Too many of America’s students are still unprepared,” she said.

And she touched on a favorite topic, school choice.

“Choice in education is not when a student picks a different classroom in this building or that building, uses this voucher or that tax-credit scholarship. "

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: betsydevos; commoncore; devos; education; fourth100days; maga; michigan; morewinning; trumpeducation; winning
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To: RinaseaofDs

And if you’re going to cover Geometry and Algebra, you gotta include Cartesian Coordinates so you can solve geometry problems with algebra! ;-)


41 posted on 01/17/2018 12:43:06 PM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: papertyger

It’s called “Critical thinking”...which no commie dimwit ever wants the subject of their control to know how to do!


42 posted on 01/17/2018 12:43:46 PM PST by gr8eman (Facts and evidence are bourgeois constructs weaponized by patriarchal penis-people)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

About time.


43 posted on 01/17/2018 12:45:33 PM PST by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: gr8eman
It’s called “Critical thinking”...which no commie dimwit ever wants the subject of their control to know how to do!

Ah, but there's the rub. Anyone can think "critically," but it takes a solid connection to Math and/or logic to make such thinking irrefutable.

EVERYONE has "reasons" for believing what they believe; the question is "are they VALID, demonstrable reasons?"

Otherwise, the modern sophist will "hypothetical" you to death with scenarios custom built to make their points seem reasonable.

44 posted on 01/17/2018 12:55:29 PM PST by papertyger (Bulverism: it's not just for liberals anymore.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Chip away Betsy.


45 posted on 01/17/2018 1:06:22 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of he Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

WINNING! MAGA! I can’t wait for the LIB “educators” to lay an egg about this. Hahaha!


46 posted on 01/17/2018 1:09:08 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: odawg
State departments of education are snake pits of anti-Americanism.
There is a lot of difficulty thinking about it, because our language has been corrupted, as “newspeak” predicted. Oddly enough, the reality of that language corruption dates all the way back to the founding of the country, as documented by Paine:
SOME writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins. Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness; the former promotes our happiness POSITIVELY by uniting our affections, the latter NEGATIVELY by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

Society in every state is a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one: for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built upon the ruins of the bowers of paradise. For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; but that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; and this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils to choose the least. Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)

What "anti-Americanism” actually opposes is American society.

Socialism is naiveté towards government which is concomitant to cynicism towards society. Cynicism can be defined as “the conceit that ‘negativity is objectivity,’” and the sweeping judgementalism inherent in cynicism is inherently arrogant.

The reason journalism is so strongly drawn to socialism is that commercial general-interest journalism is at the same time self consciously negative (“If it bleeds, it leads,” “Man Bites Dog, not Dog Bites Man”) and presumptuously convinced of its own objectivity. The negativity towards society can only be objective if negativity is objectivity.

So journalism is cynical about society. But since as Paine suggests government is in a real sense the opposite of society, consistency demands that cynicism toward society corresponds, not to cynicism about government but to naiveté towards it.


47 posted on 01/17/2018 1:41:30 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: RinaseaofDs

Very, very few people need math past Geometry. Only those really going to college need it.


Higher mathematics helps develop reasoning. Thinking is an important skill. We want more than just automatons graduating from high school.


48 posted on 01/17/2018 4:12:22 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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To: Presbyterian Reporter

“2. Has Devos simply renamed Common Core to something else?”

She won’t rename it, Congress will, and then they will fund it.

...and then, as usual, 20 years later the Republicans will figure out that they were tricked yet again.


49 posted on 01/17/2018 4:28:10 PM PST by BobL (I used to own a truck - but I couldn't handle the lifestyle)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

HOORAY Betsy De Vos


50 posted on 01/17/2018 4:36:16 PM PST by PGalt
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

YES!


51 posted on 01/17/2018 4:55:17 PM PST by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: PGalt

Only through an UNaccountable bureaucracy could a monstrosity such as Commie Core have taken hold in the first place.

DISMANTLE the Dept of Education. Better left to the states or to the citizens.

BLOATED FEDGOV leviathan ALERT!

“He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.” - list of grievances; Declaration


52 posted on 01/17/2018 5:01:59 PM PST by PGalt
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