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An Outline of The Political Significance of the Common Core
Mark Garrison ^ | January 23, 2013 | Mark Garrison

Posted on 03/04/2014 4:20:22 AM PST by GailA

Right wing think tanks have taken a principled stand against the CCSSI on the grounds that it violates the constitution and laws of the United States[6]. Folks at Schoolsmatter and Susan Ohanian are almost lone wolfs on the left in vigorously targeting the CCSSI as “authoritarian”, and exposing the role venture philanthropy (especially Bill Gates) plays in imposing the CCSSI.

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TOPICS: AMERICA - The Right Way!!; Business/Economy; Education; Religion
KEYWORDS: commoncore; destruction; education; politics; schools
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To: reasonisfaith; bk1000
Schools are already Teaching to State Standards, and agendas, instead of things like critical thinking skills, commonsense. Children are taught to the LOWEST standard. Standards started dropping in the late 60's and have continued to drop. They dropped even more with the explosion of Illegal INVADERS in to the US School Systems. I noticed it when my youngest was in 3rd grade, the teacher only taught multiplication to the 6's. They wanted to teach sexual education, I did not want my child learning, marriage is not between same sex. Guns are evil. They labeled him Learning Disabled in both math and reading D/F. Took 3 months with flash cards and Dick and Jane style books, and he was preforming beyond the set standards for that grade-A/B levels. I just simply used the 1950 standards I learned with. My husband taught JR College, 96% of the A/B math graduated students from the Memphis City Schools had to be taught REMEDIAL math before they could take his Electronics and Computer Science courses. Not so the Shelby County and Foreign students from the countries where parents demanded high standards.
21 posted on 03/04/2014 5:19:39 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
It seeks the lowest common denominator.

How then does one explain the low scores coming in nationwide on CC tests?

22 posted on 03/04/2014 5:19:55 AM PST by fso301
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To: Max in Utah
You’re doing fine, comrade fso301. Keep up the good work and someday you could receive the Order of Obama!

Offer specific criticisms rather than name calling.

23 posted on 03/04/2014 5:23:08 AM PST by fso301
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To: billhilly
We sent men to the moon long before we had common core.

We relied on Nazi scientists who were the products of an education system different from that which you romanticize.

We designed and built jets, cars, ships, and Pepsi.

Does that mean we couldn't have done better?

How did Thomas Edison get along without common Core?

Edison was a dropout of the system you romanticize.

That isn’t an invitation for a reply.

You don't want a reply because you cannot make specific arguments.

24 posted on 03/04/2014 5:29:32 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

Because not all kids or schools are the same.

Common core is one size fits all stupidity.


25 posted on 03/04/2014 5:29:52 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
Because not all kids or schools are the same. Common core is one size fits all stupidity.

Should y = 2x + 3 have different solutions based on the school, or students asked to solve it?

26 posted on 03/04/2014 5:32:45 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

Since I am a great grandmother, the way algebra is taught has changed at least 5 times. Why should it take a full page to reach the conclusion of your y=2x +3 example?

A 25 year old person working behind a customer service desk which sends Western Union money wires, should be able to READ Cursive and Write it. There are important family documents that are written in cursive, many in old English, that a 5th in my day could read, NOT so today. My 12 year old granddaughter cannot read cursive nor write it. My grandson is also in the 6th grade and cannot read or write cursive. Both go to what is the ‘new norm’ high standards schools.

As to History the victor of any war writes it.

But CORE subjects do not change, nor should the methods they are taught. It is very confusing to children when the parent has been taught Algebra one way and they are being taught a new way. You get CHAOS which is the aim of government.


27 posted on 03/04/2014 5:34:40 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: GailA
Type O should read taught that same sex marriage is OK. IT IS NOT.
28 posted on 03/04/2014 5:39:03 AM PST by GailA (IF you fail to keep your promises to the Military, you won't keep them to Citizens!)
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To: GailA
Since I am a great grandmother, the way algebra is taught has changed at least 5 times. Why should it take a full page to reach the conclusion of your y=2x +3 example?

It shouldn't but any of the 5 different approaches to the problem should still result in the same answer on the test.

A 25 year old person working behind a customer service desk which sends Western Union money wires, should be able to READ Cursive and Write it. There are important family documents that are written in cursive, many in old English, that a 5th in my day could read, NOT so today. My 12 year old granddaughter cannot read cursive nor write it. My grandson is also in the 6th grade and cannot read or write cursive.

I don't believe dropping cursive is anything that came new with CC. Knowing cursive is beneficial but not necessary for success in life. Cursive is a faster way of writing than print and used to be important for note taking. Now, my kids lessons/lectures are typically available electronically and they take few notes. For professionals, electronic devices capture what formerly required proficiency in cursive and even shorthand.

I'm more surprised at some of my son's classmates that cannot tell time from an analog clock/watch. All they have in their home are digital clocks. Concepts such as clockwise and counterclockwise are therefore not intuitive to them.

But CORE subjects do not change, nor should the methods they are taught. It is very confusing to children when the parent has been taught Algebra one way and they are being taught a new way. You get CHAOS which is the aim of government.

If you can cite an example as to solving an inequality, or function being substantially different in 1950 from the way done today, I'd appreciate knowing about it.

29 posted on 03/04/2014 5:58:05 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

I agree with others here. You’re just another liberal moron.


30 posted on 03/04/2014 6:03:36 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: cripplecreek
I agree with others here. You’re just another liberal moron.

All you can do is cower in your echo chamber calling names because you cannot offer a single fact to back up your opinion.

Is your opposition to a measurable standard due to your being tied into some monied private school interest fearful of having an apple-apple comparison ever made against them?

31 posted on 03/04/2014 6:09:20 AM PST by fso301
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To: GailA

I had a conversation with one of the common core fixated teachers the other day.

Basically it came down to teaching children a new way to think that doesn’t require thought at all. Teach them to think and communicate like computers or some kind of hive mind. And if you don’t agree you’re stupid.

I asked the teacher if that thinking took into account that when you put garbage into a computer, you get garbage out. His response “We don’t put garbage in”. Personally I consider almost all of it to be garbage.


32 posted on 03/04/2014 6:28:06 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: fso301
Why should y = 2x + 3 result in a different solution anywhere in the nation?

Because there are two variables in this equation there is no single solution.

33 posted on 03/04/2014 6:30:47 AM PST by CPOSharky (If a libtards lips are moving...)
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To: CPOSharky
Because there are two variables in this equation there is no single solution.

There could be other answers depending upon the particular question but if given y = 2x + 3 the question asks for the slope of the line, that there should be differing answers anywhere in the nation?

34 posted on 03/04/2014 10:12:38 AM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

y = 2x + 3 is the slope.


35 posted on 03/04/2014 10:39:59 AM PST by CPOSharky (If a libtards lips are moving...)
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To: CPOSharky
y = 2x + 3 is the slope.

I think the word "intercept" must have been accidentally been deleted in your post. y = 2x + 3 is the slope intercept form of linear equation. The slope = 2 and y intercept = 3.

36 posted on 03/04/2014 12:04:35 PM PST by fso301
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To: fso301

“What is wrong with having an educational standard for each grade level that is comparable from school to school, district to district and state to state?”

Nothing at all. In fact the top-ranked nations in the TIMSS(trends in international math and science studies) tests that have been given every 3 years since the 80’s have a common curriculum across all schools. We have been at the bottom of those test results, btw.

The problem is having this socialist, anti-American government in charge of it. Reversing the dumping down is NOT their objective. Just more brainwashing, just like the Soviets and Nazis did.


37 posted on 03/05/2014 4:51:54 PM PST by yorkiemom
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To: yorkiemom

Dumbing down. My tablet changes words on me...


38 posted on 03/05/2014 6:59:08 PM PST by yorkiemom
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