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Oklahoma Dumps Common Core as Dominoes Fall
The New American ^ | 06 June 2014 | Alex Newman

Posted on 06/06/2014 4:45:16 PM PDT by VitacoreVision

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1 posted on 06/06/2014 4:45:16 PM PDT by VitacoreVision
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What’s the opposite of common core?

Vouchers.


2 posted on 06/06/2014 4:50:31 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: VitacoreVision

Glad she did this.....


3 posted on 06/06/2014 4:51:16 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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What’s the opposite of common core?

The historical truth and doing math the way it was done in the 1950s; tables and rote memorization.

4 posted on 06/06/2014 4:53:43 PM PDT by upchuck (Support ABLE, the Anybody But Lindsey Effort. Yes, we are the ABLE!!)
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To: samtheman
What’s the opposite of common core?

Sanity.

5 posted on 06/06/2014 4:58:31 PM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: upchuck

Exactly. Which is what vouchers would lead to: doing the three R’s the right way. For everyone. Including for “minority” children. But the billionaire Obama’s with their daughters in Sidwell, are fighting tooth and nail against vouchers.


6 posted on 06/06/2014 4:58:42 PM PDT by samtheman
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To: VitacoreVision

If anyone is interested, this video gives all the info on Common Core. It’s the worst thing ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-kx5-MKSE#t=1713


7 posted on 06/06/2014 4:59:55 PM PDT by Shannon
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To: VitacoreVision

Obama is’t the end of America.

Common Core is the end of America.

It’s DESIGNED to be the end of America.

It’s the frickin’ coup de grâce.


8 posted on 06/06/2014 5:06:41 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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I also think we need vouchers/charter schools so parents have choice.

But in the end you need a quantitative way to evaluate the output of the different schools. While there are parts of common core that may need tweaking the idea of a national standard in education and measuring against it seems prudent.

To many parents thing johnny is doing good because he’s passing each year gettings b’s when he is in fact unable to pass anything in another better school and they don’t know it.

Even GWB understood this need.


9 posted on 06/06/2014 5:10:31 PM PDT by wonkowasright (Wonko from outside the asylum)
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Even so, I don’t trust her in this. She was way involved with Common Core, and now she wants to blame others for it.


10 posted on 06/06/2014 5:26:06 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God!)
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To: VitacoreVision

The old math got us to the moon and built the internet. The new math makes it necessary for the cash register at McDonald’s to make change because those behind the counter can’t.


11 posted on 06/06/2014 5:28:06 PM PDT by txrefugee
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But in the end you need a quantitative way to evaluate the output of the different schools. While there are parts of common core that may need tweaking the idea of a national standard in education and measuring against it seems prudent.

When I was in school (ancient history: the forties and fifties), there was something called the Iowa test.

It seemed a fair test of general skills in math, English, history and geography.

It had nothing to do with your grade, but ended up on your report card and the school district considered it in grading its schools.

I've always wondered "What the hell was wrong with that?"

12 posted on 06/06/2014 5:28:42 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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To: VitacoreVision

They think they dumped it.

How will they go to every school and into every classroom and make sure the teachers aren’t using it?


13 posted on 06/06/2014 5:29:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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Apparently Common Core is about “fairness” in that it seeks to make all kids imbeciles equally


14 posted on 06/06/2014 5:31:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: wonkowasright

No.

You don’t need an evaluation mechanism for each school blessed by the sanctified and holy government.

We didn’t have that before and we were world leaders in education.

We’re there merit in your statement that would not have been so.

Schools doing things right demonstrate their prowess by the achievement of the students later in life.

Call me old fashioned.


15 posted on 06/06/2014 5:33:22 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: okie01

Are you referring to the Iowa Basic Skills Test? Wow, it’s been decades but you jogged my memory!


16 posted on 06/06/2014 5:51:36 PM PDT by loboinok (Gun control is hitting what you aim at!)
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Yep...the old math also got us the transcontinental railroad, the Panama Canal, the Empire State building, the Golden Gate Bridge, the 8th Air Force, etc...all without a single computer or pocket calculator.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

17 posted on 06/06/2014 5:58:09 PM PDT by wku man (Veterans, it's up to us to save the Republic...let's roll.)
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Are you referring to the Iowa Basic Skills Test?

Yes.

Taking it, I thought it was both a fair and comprehensive test of knowledge/skills.

There was none of this "teaching to the test" crap, either.

18 posted on 06/06/2014 6:01:39 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance on parade.)
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Even so, I don’t trust her in this. She was way involved with Common Core, and now she wants to blame others for it.

Do you have proof of this spurious accusation?

19 posted on 06/06/2014 6:45:13 PM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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"To many parents thing johnny is doing good"

'TOO' not 'TO' ... and 'WELL' is the adverb, modifying 'doing.' 'Johnny' is a proper noun so is CAPitalized. I'm sure 'thing' was a mere errant finger and I probably spun off a typo myself.

Wonko may be right, but Wonko do'snt speakink tipe good.

- Your Mom

20 posted on 06/06/2014 7:19:40 PM PDT by tinyowl (A equals A)
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