I believe the most basic problem schools are encountering (which may be one of the main drivers of Common Core) is that they simply don’t have teachers with the knowledge to teach the way we were taught decades ago. They basically have to dumb down subjects not for the students (especially many of the children of immigrants - many of whom are bright & motivated), but for the TEACHERS.
I recall years ago playing Trivial Pursuit with other couples, and the one teacher playing would have shocked you with her ignorance. These are far from the best & brightest; I believe the graphs/charts FReepers have shown over the years indicating teachers come from the bottom of their college classes. Creating an “education” major was a huge mistake, as students now have these idiots attempting to teach them math & science (which terrified these same teachers in their younger days - hence the education degree).
Colleges make money giving their “version” of Education as well, no where near even across schools and a particular discipline
College is by and large all theoretical knowledge that never lands on a particular standard or reference of Expertise
Student Loan Debt is well over 1 Trillion and rising...
And no jobs for such low skill levels
H1B visa time, co$t$ le$$
What a mess
Safer that way, we just provide, they have to make careers of it...
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Yep. I was in school back in the ‘70s and there was a huge divide between the older and younger teachers.
For example, the younger teachers all had problems with spelling, including young English teachers. However, the older teachers, including in math and science, were uniformly competent spellers.
Those who had completed college by the ‘60s were unquestionably better educated.
Also, the mind-numbingly poor pedagogy teachers are taught and brainwashed in—such as whole language or blended reading methods instead of phonics for reading and now common core math replacing even previous modern math approaches—make them inefficient teachers almost by design.