New Data Show California Kids’ Math Achievement Took A Nosedive After Common Core

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

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,

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.

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.

Do they still teach Math? They started lowering math requirements when I was a freshman in high school in 1952.

Graduated HS in 1975 a year early. Intermediate algebra was usually freshman and trig not mandatory to graduate HS but was offered for as an elective. If you wanted calculus they'd let you go to the Jr College and get credits. I remember in 1972 using my dads Trig book from 1949 as a reference to my book. No BS math stopped somewhere in the 1950's.

Nowadays you have kids in college taking basic math with the idea they want to be physicicains assistants in five years but it will take them four semesters to get to Trig so even their JC will be four years.

The best tutors in the math tutorial at the local JC are sixteen year old home schooled kids. Not all but enough to prove common core and whatever else they (do not) teach in public schools is complete nonsense.

Common Core math and English sure is confusing. No idea what the logic( if any) is behind their confusing teaching.

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