Posted on 06/23/2015 11:00:07 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not.
So curriculum director Tammy Baumann and her team took the books apart, literally. Then they rearranged lessons, filled in holes with outside material and put it all together in what will be the K-2 math curriculum in the fall at her district in East Lansing, Michigan.
It was a time-consuming but necessary response, Baumann said, to what appears to be a near-universal lament of teachers as they page through textbooks and websites: a lack of high-quality teaching materials aligned to the Common Core Learning Standards that have been adopted by most states. […]
Five years into the implementation of Common Core, standards meant to steer students from rote memorization toward critical thinking, 45 percent of school districts reported “major problems” finding good aligned textbooks, and another 45 percent reported “minor problems,” an October survey by the Center of Education Policy found. …
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The only thing “Common Core” is in common with are the typical standards of Marxist dictatorial goals.
Why don’t they adopt the curriculum that home schoolers or classical schools use?
I wonder how many Common Core supporters will support future common core students perform a operation on them. Our future generation is being dumb down on purpose. One day there will not be any doctors nor nurses to help them. Except for the elite who will have the money to get their own care.
All teachers everywhere complain about a lack of materials. Very little left of that $18,000 per pupil once it passes through all the corrupt hands and finally reaches the classroom.
Where does your $18,000 per pupil figure come from.
That’s an approximate number close to what is generally mentioned in articles about per-pupil spending in my state (Pennsylvania)
That would not be the political “solution” they’re looking for.
LOL....with TX not paying the freight to the textbook companies, they aren’t willing to invest in this educational brain fart. It will die as all fads do, leaving book rooms stuffed with unused teaching materials paid for by the clueless taxpayers of each school district. Such waste of Other People’s Money should be a criminal offense.
This is one source although most estimates of the average I’ve seen are around this amount. According to one of the president’s budget proposal, (http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BUD...) in (very poorly run) Washington D.C. area schools, it costs around $18,000 per student, per school year for the “education” part of each child’s expenses, asking for a built-in 3.5% yearly budgetary increase.
Most of that amount goes to various democrat and union payoffs and salaries as evidenced by the conditions in the D.C. area schools.
BS!!! Common Core was designed to indoctrinate students into Socialist thinking and, if they answer with truth, they will be marked down. WAKE UP, AMERICA! Our children are being groomed to be nothing but Leftist robots!!
Just bought a copy of Common Sense by Paine and on the back it says it is a Common Core selection - - which is a good thing. If you haven’t read Common Sense,it is still a very powerful pamphlet. It helped sway popular opinion in the colonies and led to our independence and is very readable today.
Yep, unions, union pensions, union healthcare, union perks, union boondoggles...
the “children” suffer because of the greedy of the filthy unions.
Thanks for your reply here. Will take a look at it.
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