As far as I am concerned ‘Common Core’ is a MAJOR attempt at dumbing down America’s children. I bet you that the children of the ‘elites’ are getting a good education with sound fundamentals in Math, English, Reading and Writing. That will eventually translate to the point where only the children of the ‘Elites’ can qualify for the ‘Elite’ universities and ivy league schools.
Think about it... in one generation the gulf between the have’s and have-nots or if you will; the ‘elites’ and the non-elites will be nigh insurmountable for the average American to overcome.
“...math professor at the University of California at Berkeley, Marina Ratner...”
She’s a woman math prof from Berkely, I’m thinking that makes it almost impossible that she is in any way a conservative.
Which is good, because this nonsense needs to go and one shouldn’t have to be a conservative to see that.
In fact, I think this is a good example of something that can provide common ground for those who still have common sense. It’s those who would rule us and who think we work for them who support this.
Bill Ayers and his commie buds. He crows about it to anyone who is forced to listen to him.
He says he is very proud of all the work they have done to "improve" education.
The Democrat CC states will be known as the Stupid States, after adopting this Leftist propaganda and then finding their students can’t pass the SAT. By the way, the central planners know this, and that is why the Ivy League is moving to dump that standard test. They want to accept the miseducated offspring of the well-connected and the obligatory minorities, who won’t be able to add large numbers because it will take too long to draw the pictures.
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Common Core is geared so kids attending public schools don’t get any funny ideas of having freedom and liberty in this fundamentally transformed United States. Jebby, the hildahag and most if not all democrats and the RINOs in DC support Common Core so it’s reasonable to conclude that anyone supporting CC are NWO order pukes and traitors.
Standards that come with a curriculum aligned to mandatory high-stakes testing are not academic standards. They are, in effect, regulations.
When I entered school in 1940 (yes) it was the day of pencil and paper. Teacher TAUGHT the children of immigrant parents who could barely speak ENGLISH at a time when the very word “computer” was an entry in the dictionary only.
Parents, English speaking or not, saw to it that their children were TAUGHT Math, Geography, American and World History, science, and even music and art. These students grew up to build what we now live in.
After their parents’ generation saved the world from facism, the kids took their turn and shouldered the responsibility.
I ask, how well would the product of COMMON CORE do in the eighth grade test we had to pass? I bet I know.
Common Core=Obama’s “No Child Left Behind”.
I have a hint for legislators: Why don’t we return school control to states, locally, parents and the free market?
The NY GOP gubernatorial candidate, Rob Astorino, is running on an additional line, the ANTI-Common Core line, as well as the usual Republican and Conservatve Party lines.
Where in the Constitution is the federal government given power to dictate education. This is one area where people should just say stuff it.
What? They don’t like regimentation and adherence to the principles of social justice?
Outrageous!
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IMHO
Follow the money to Pearson.