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Common Core or Common failure?
Families pull kids out of class
katu.com ^
| 11/13/13
| Dan Cassuto KATU News and KATU.com Staff
Posted on 11/13/2013 7:01:38 AM PST by Nachum
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To: Steve_Seattle
I have always suspected that a prime goal of Common Core is to separate the elite from everyone else, to hinder kids who can do rote work very well but may not be able to re-invent math in their seventh-grade minds.The Soviets did that. They channeled kids into various jobs from kindergarten onward.
My experience in the current U.S. as a retired corporate professional who tried a lower-stress job after retirement is that people who excel are subject to discrimination -- regimented employees bully and hate an achiever, and accuse them of snobbery and "not knowing their place." When I would try to introduce any commonsense improvements that actually worked and boosted performance, especially if it made things look better to the regional manager, the knives really came out.
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posted on
11/13/2013 9:53:23 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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posted on
11/13/2013 9:58:00 AM PST
by
Cooter
To: Mamzelle
HA...that was ME! I excelled at Algebra.....couldn’t understand Geometry....got my worst grade...a C-
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posted on
11/13/2013 11:35:46 AM PST
by
goodnesswins
(R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
To: kitchen
“S.M.S.G. survivor here.”
I guess I survived, but I think my life might have been different if I’d had, say, Isaac Asimov for an algebra tutor.
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11/13/2013 2:25:59 PM PST
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: aruanan
“see how education majors compare to engineering majors in the GRE”
Do you know where those figures can be found?
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posted on
11/13/2013 2:38:06 PM PST
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: jpsb; All
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posted on
11/13/2013 6:23:09 PM PST
by
The Bat Lady
(Can't feed the bears in Yellowstone, they lose the desire to hunt. But welfare is OK.)
To: editor-surveyor
...the extensive use of ‘jargon’ in Algebra classes. Rather than explaining what was really being done, teachers would use terms like “Transpose” and give a list of Rules of how to transpose, instead of simply stating that it amounted to performing the same operation to both sides of the equation.I agree with that. I also found the same thing in business -- execs just talking lingo out of their azzes.
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posted on
11/13/2013 6:40:56 PM PST
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Albion Wilde
("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
To: dsc
“see how education majors compare to engineering majors in the GRE”
Do you know where those figures can be found?
I will try to run that down. It's been a while since I read it.
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posted on
11/13/2013 7:21:30 PM PST
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aruanan
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