Posted on 08/25/2013 1:39:28 PM PDT by lowbridge
I have been teaching for over twenty years. Generally, I have been given either no curriculum or curriculum that was focused on skills, not specific texts. I would have to get those skills taught in whatever way I wanted to get there. Sometimes I was given more direction and that direction was generally pretty good including texts, key terms, supplemental stories, and suggested writing assignments. These directions were created at a school level by the teachers in the school. I helped write some myself. Mostly, I have had a lot of freedom in how I could achieve the learning goals.
Not anymore.
Today I was in a professional development session for my school district. Our school system has swallowed the Common Core curriculum whole. Why wouldn’t they? The federal system has said that it is “voluntary”, but “voluntary” means that the district gets cut off from major federal funding if it does not adopt the standards, so “voluntary” is subjective. Here is what the Washington Post reported Sen. Charles Grassley has to say about Common Core:
Current federal law makes clear that the U.S. Department of Education may not be involved in setting specific content standards or determining the content of state assessments. Nevertheless, the selection criteria designed by the U.S. Department of Education for the Race to the Top Program provided that for a state to have any chance to compete for funding, it must commit to adopting a “common set of K-12 standards” matching the description of the Common Core.
The Washington Post also reported, “The Republican National Committee recognizes the CCSS for what it is — an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children…”
(Excerpt) Read more at dcclothesline.com ...
That’s what they want you to think this is.
But it isn’t.
It isn’t even close.
but “voluntary” means that the district gets cut off from major federal funding if it does not adopt the standards, so “voluntary” is subjective
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Dana, honey, voluntary now means involuntary. You need to catch up your Newspeak. OINK!
AND here is the real agenda - ONE WORLD EDUCATION
Common Core – The Qatar Connection: A Wahhabi State Skypes With Your Children – Connect All Schools
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3058348/posts
From article:
The acronyms for America’s New World Order education are mind-numbing – all the better to keep you from connecting who is connected to who/whom/which. First, I have found one source that connects Common Core Initiative Standards (CCIS) to “Connect All Schools,” and that is on the “Connect All Schools” website page titled One World Education (OWE).
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The program is the first of its kind in New York City to integrate Arabic into an elementary school curriculum, organizers said.
The classes are a joint program between the Language Project and the Washington, D.C.-based, non-profit Qatar Foundation International.
“This is important because in the near future, Arabic is going to be a global language,” Mamdouh added.
Their parents spent big bucks to send their kids to after-school tutoring schools.The tutoring schools are **PRVATE**! ( Gee! Imagine that!)
Maybe, just maybe, their government owned and run socialist-entitlement and single payer K-12 schools are just as crappy as our socialist-entitlement and single-payer schools!
see post 23 - meant to include you in the ping
I assume you are not talking about the Philippines, which has an awful education system.
The definition of Asian is about as clear as the word Hispanic
All people need to know is that this President WANTS it - and Bill Ayers, the “curriculum expert”, is very active in this mess.
This has absolutely nothing to do with “standards”. At least, not in the way people normally think of them.
“I don’t understand how the Asians manage to standardize education and get great results while Americans can’t do it without screwing everything up.”
It probably has something to do with the notion that in most countries in the world, there is not an ever-widening cabal of smug and arrogant elites seeking to destroy the existing order or lack of order for their personal gain. At least not on a longstanding basis. I am not saying there aren’t plenty, indeed, a majority of politicians in every system seeking personal gain. There certainly are. But the great majority of them do not view their nations as rotting corpses where, if they not get their scrap of meat off the bones, there won’t be any left.
I have little doubt Common Core will soon turn whatever is left of our once fine public education system into a Common Corpse...
I don’t know what planet you’re living but the illegal aliens I’ve come in contact with when I was in construction couldn’t read or write their own language and most of them had never set foot in any classroom.
My understanding is that reading choices are largely determined at the state and county level. Teachers may choose from an approved list.
If you mean to refer to grammar and basic writing competency, assuming one accepts a traditional approach, then yes, common standards, measurable, might be desirable.
Those two are what I specifically mentioned in my original post.
“Education better be taught in Espanol because the Baby Boomers who funded the Federal Government for the last 50 years didn’t have enough children to fund your bullshit! They couldn’t AFFORD to!”
They chose not to (and their children and grandchildren continue to choose not to), and now the meek are inheriting the earth.
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 exchanges a set “L” of lumber for a set “M” of money. The cardinality of set “M” is 100. Each element is worth one dollar. Make 100 dots representing the elements of the set “M.” The set “C,” the cost of production contains 20 fewer points than set “M.” Represent the set “C” as subset of set “M” and answer the following question: What is the cardinality of the set “P” of profits?
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 1990:
By cutting down beautiful forest trees, the logger makes $20. What do you think of this way of making a living? Topic for class participation after answering the question: How did the forest birds and squirrels “feel” as the logger cut down the trees? There are no wrong answers.
Teaching Math in 2002:
A logger sells a truckload of lumber for $100. His cost of production is $120. How does Arthur Andersen determine that his profit margin is $60?
Teaching Math in 2010:
El hachero vende un camion cargado de lena por $100. Su gasto de unga bunga munga funga dunga...
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