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New Data Show California Kids’ Math Achievement Took A Nosedive After Common Core
The Federalist ^ | MAY 16, 2018 | Joy Pullmann

Posted on 05/16/2018 5:44:24 AM PDT by george76

By 2014, California was the top state in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. Common Core erased all those gains almost immediately

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Before Common Core came along, California parents, faculty, and officials spent years developing some of the best-ranked K-12 math requirements in the nation. One result of their careful work was more than tripling the number of eighth graders who ranked proficient in math, and quadrupling the number of eighth graders taking algebra.

By 2014, California was the top state in the nation in eighth-grade algebra enrollment. That was the year Common Core went into place. It erased all those gains almost immediately,

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Obama administration pushed states into Common Core in 2010, but it started phasing into schools at the earliest in 2013, and more in earnest in 2014 and 2015. That’s right when all the achievement jumps off a cliff.

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evaluate how Common Core affects kids, the degradation of math instruction in a country already known for poor math instruction, the especially damaging effects on the most vulnerable kids, the lying to parents, students, and taxpayers about the quality of the classes their kids are taking and we’re all paying for.

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


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To: redfreedom

“So Common Core is doing it’s job, what’s the issue? /s/”

What’s with the “/s/”. Common Core is doing EXACTLY what it was intended to do - which is bring US students down a few notches, so as to bring the country down to a level more ‘equitable’ with the rest of the world.

But I think they must be surprised at how many parents keep right on sending their kids to their schools, CLUELESS as to what’s going on.


21 posted on 05/16/2018 6:09:31 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: george76

Lower Expectations.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/expectations


22 posted on 05/16/2018 6:09:47 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: metmom; wintertime

Have at it!!!


23 posted on 05/16/2018 6:10:11 AM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's...I just don't tell anyone)
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To: GnuThere

Via an e-mail some years ago...

Teaching Math In 1950:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is 4/5 of the price. What is his profit?

Teaching Math In 1960:
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?

Teaching Math In 1970:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $80. Did he make a profit?

Teaching Math In 1980:
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.

Teaching Math In 2010:
A logger cuts down some beautiful forest trees 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. How do you feel about this way of making a living?


24 posted on 05/16/2018 6:14:17 AM PDT by ETL (Obama-Hillary, REAL Russia collusion! Uranium-One Deal, Missile Defense, Iran Deal, Nukes: Click ETL)
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To: ETL

So true.


25 posted on 05/16/2018 6:15:59 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Opinionated Blowhard
All part of the plan

It's hard to believe that the plan was to make people less useful in Math. I suspect the problem is "the tests" are really messing up teaching and student confidence. The concept of the old Iowa tests, to assess weaknesses to be addressed, gave good teachers much more flexibility and knowledge to improve math skills.

I'm a math Luddite. Before the push to learn more, sooner, eighth grade Pre-Algebra was an excellent course for making sure math skills were complete and connected to Math topics (Algebra, Geometry, Trig, Prob&Stat) which follow. After an excellent PreAlgebra course, everything else goes smoothly and the student has a strong beginning in all of those topics.

Don't wind me up.

26 posted on 05/16/2018 6:18:34 AM PDT by grania (President Trump, stop believing the Masters of War!)
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To: george76

Want an eye-opener?
Go volunteer to tutor.

They cannot do simple math, algebra challenged, no cursive handwriting, reading challenged. This will not end well.


27 posted on 05/16/2018 6:23:45 AM PDT by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: george76

And these are the same people teaching your kids to sexually experiment and “be safe”.

They also teach Howard Zinn’s revisionist history.

America is screwed.


28 posted on 05/16/2018 6:24:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Sex education lead to a Democrat windfall in planned parenthood to kill off burdensome babies. Drug and pot legalization will lead to treatment centers that will kill off burdensome addicts and homeless.


29 posted on 05/16/2018 6:37:17 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: george76

I have seen some of that ‘Common Core’ math crap.

It’s absolutely the stupidest stuff you ever saw.

Kids will be completely math clueless as adults.

Which is what it’s for......................


30 posted on 05/16/2018 6:47:22 AM PDT by Red Badger (Remember all the great work Obama did for the black community?.............. Me neither.)
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To: george76

Las señoras in my Spanish class are all retired teachers, all progressives and ALL hate common core. So, we finally have something in common. Though they’ll never admit from whence it’s planted.


31 posted on 05/16/2018 6:59:42 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: BobL

Yes, those are the excuses. One more, schools are acrively telling kids to not tell their parents some of the things they’re being taught (I seem to recall in one Massachusetts school, some form of pervert or another was brought in to teach a class about perversion, and the kids were told to not to take the workbooks home or let their parents see them). Not to mention, the incidents where kids have been asked, in essence, to spy on theor families and report to their teachers (I assume so that the school can counter any beliefs instilled by the parents which are counter to the left’s agenda of perversion and anti-whiteness).


32 posted on 05/16/2018 7:18:05 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: george76; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; AccountantMom; Aggie Mama; agrace; ...

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the other articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

OTOH, all my kids have excelled in math having been homeschooled.

Thank you Saxon Math!

33 posted on 05/16/2018 7:19:57 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: george76

Whoever wrote this article improperly conflates “percentages of enrollment” with the ability to perform algebra or pre-algebraic math. For meaningful analysis, compare statewide average performance on standardized math tests for various years. Next compare results for students subjected to Common Core versus conventional curricula. Which group has higher test scores AFTER their first year of algebra? Further separate results by socioeconomic and ethnic criteria. Using enrollment as a proxy for ability is a joke ... 87.35% of the time.


34 posted on 05/16/2018 7:27:35 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: onedoug

Every teacher I’ve ever talked to *HATES* Common Core with a passion.

But it’s mandat3ed that they teach it, and so they do as little as possible, and supplement it as well as they can.


35 posted on 05/16/2018 7:27:58 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith..)
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To: 1Old Pro

Deliberate.

As were efforts to introduce/accept ‘creative spelling’, ebonics, and now ‘zim’ and ‘shim’ gender neutral phrasing.

Their goal is to destroy language, hamstring people, and bring down society.


36 posted on 05/16/2018 7:37:01 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ads for Chappaquiddick warn of scenes of tobacco use. What about the hazards of drunk driving?)
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To: george76

I wonder if there were any studies that showed the common core method of teaching math was actually better than the old way? I suspect not, and that these “improvements” are done at the whim of some bureacracy. I also suspect that some of these methods (like whole word vs phonetics) are actually designed to dumb down American students to put us at a disadvantage.


37 posted on 05/16/2018 7:38:50 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: Opinionated Blowhard; george76

I believe the Department of Education at the Federal level should be abolished and closed.

At one point, we ran education at the local level. Towns would hire their own teachers based on their own standards and the support of the parents who voted for them to make those decisions.

Each locality, even at a town or city level, made its own standards, and as such, served as a standalone unit to teach children.

They were held to account, if they failed in their mission to teach, the teachers or administrators were fired and new ones hired. Parents did not like if their children were taught by lousy teachers.

If, as a parent, you did not like the way your children were being taught, you could leave your “standalone unit” and move to another town or state, or send your child elsewhere.

The danger of having these federal standards like “Common Core” is that if they fail (which they clearly are) instead of one locality, town, or city being a failure, you have failure on a national level with no recourse for parents to send their children somewhere else (without having to pay extra for it, obviously, such as a private school)

There is no accountability when things like education are run at the Federal level.


38 posted on 05/16/2018 7:41:44 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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To: george76

“By 2014, California was the top state in the nation in eighth-grade algebra enrollment.”

So who cares about enrollment. How did these cupcakes compare with other students nationwide in algebra academics?


39 posted on 05/16/2018 7:46:47 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: SgtHooper
“By 2014, California was the top state in the nation in eighth-grade algebra enrollment.” So who cares about enrollment. How did these cupcakes compare with other students nationwide in algebra academics?

It's odd logic, like the more people on food stamps and welfare the better.

40 posted on 05/16/2018 7:47:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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