I posted the link and instructions for the PARCC practice tests and Ohio’s AIR tests here: http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3265858/posts
Anybody can take the practice tests.
Get your children out of the government indoctrination centers - NOW!
This, however, is what the Common Core Standards expect our fourth graders to do. If they solve it in those two steps they get it marked wrong.
No way! This can't be for real.
Can anyone see any of these students being able to do double-entry bookkeeping in the future????
EVERY business needs such a person.
Nice work! She tells it like it is.
When one of my kids was in fifth grade, I went to a PTA night. The teacher, a nice fellow in his 60’s, thought he’d enlighten the parents by showing how they were teaching the kids division.
It was a cluster-f**k. In essence, the kids were supposed to be “seeing” everything in terms of powers of ten, but the method and notekeeping was extremely convoluted. I said, “What are you doing here? You’re trying to teach the kids to divide using synthetic division when they barely know arithmetic, and three or four years before the concepts of polynomials and synthetic division will be introduced.”
Now, this fellow wasn’t a bad guy, and didn’t care if the kids learned the traditional way at home. Many teachers aren’t so understanding.
Anyway, after the class, about a half-dozen parents came to me and thanked me for expressing succinctly and accurately what the pedagogic problem was.
This was maybe 15 or 17 years ago. I’m sure it has only gotten worse since then.
Standing ovation for Karen Lamoreaux.
The Engineering teacher that prepared me best for the real world never gave lectures or went through the pages of the book with us.
He’d just walk into the class, tell us to go to the next problem in the back of the chapter and figure it out.
While I appreciate what this Arkansas mom is doing, why doesn’t she point out that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to decide policy for intrastate schools?
Common Core teached kids what the meaning of “is” is. :-)
Counts around? What the heck is that? Who writes these things?
The education establishment has always abandoned tried and true teaching methods that work in favor of the latest fad in education. Case in point teaching reading with phonics. How many times have educators abandoned phonics in favor of endless variations of the old look say method that has always failed? I believe one cause is that EdD programs are totally lacking in real qualitative research. I started in an EdD program but left in disgust because of the ludicrous “research” methods. I wanted to do serious research on the effectiveness of online teaching technologies, but couldn’t find any of the faculty in the College of Education who had any interest in the subject or even enough technical knowledge to understand the kind of research I was proposing. Serious qualitative research would have long ago established that phonics works to teach reading and that the other methods being tried simply don’t work as well. However, that kind of research is lost on the education community.
Equal outcomes.
That’s what ‘common core” is abut.
No student is allowed to show superior intellect, and no student will be allowed to work out any answers that weren’t arrived at via the approved method that common core demands.
Common core is about making sure that, all students are prepared for a future where they are all pawns of the state.
IN a sense, a student cannot use the God-given gifts that he or she was born with. All students will have to do things in exactly the same way. Students are being turned into robots. Robots all do the same, if they’re of the same cookie-cutter design.
Thus, a student with a superior brain or with a larger and more capable memory, cannot used those God-given ‘talents’ to solve any problems. It’s all the same, or nothing, and anyone that shows initiative, is a problem child. Can’t have a problem child, who will, to a liberal mind, grow up to be a problem for the state. Memory and superior minds and intellects, are not conducive to a population that is easily controlled or subservient to government authority or rule.
Common core has to be stopped before we end up with a lot more indoctrinated people going out to a work-force and into a country that can’t take care of itself.
College-ready and competing in a globally economy have become opposite things these days
excellent!
BTW, after watching this mom’s brilliant speech on youtube, I watched one that came up on the same page: Brilliant anti-Common Core Speech by Dr. Duke Pesta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-kx5-MKSE
I have watched quite a few presentations on CC, but this one the most informative and frightening.
This, however, is what the Common Core Standards expect our fourth graders to do. If they solve it in those two steps they get it marked wrong. They are expected to draw 18 circles with 90 hashmarks solving this problem in exactly 108 steps. Board members, this is not rigorous. This is not college ready. This is not preparing our children to compete in a global economy.
It's what LTjg Holden said:
"In confusion there is profit."
Every teacher who cooperates with this, establishes this in the classroom, and supports its implementation is committing malpractice. They are HURTING children!
No one is holding a gun to the heads of these teachers and principals. They willingly seek work in the government schools and they willing go to work every day and then hurt children through serious malpractice. They do it for money, generous vacations, and a pension.
Every other American has figured out how to make money without hurting kids. Teachers could, too.
It is time we stop thinking of teachers in the nation's single-payer and socialist-entitlement schools as overworked, underpaid, resurrected Mother Teresas. They aren't. And....If your schools don't have Common Core, government teachers are hurting children in many other ways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXf91AGW2QA
Hour-long slideshow by Joy Pullman, School Reform News.
Gives background, who financed it, who is pushing it, how many states have adopted it, effects on education, problems with it.
Info at noted times in the lecture:
Publishing house Pearson has monopoly on textbooks @ 14:01
Affective testing, intrusive @ 16:40
Data tracking; dossier being gathered @ 48:32
Psych profiling; harmful if gets out @ 51:15
Link to other lectures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxoopxbaIA0
15 year old demolishes Common Core.
He was asked to research it and develop a web site for the Arkansas Against Common Core.
He did such a terrific job that he was invited to speak to the House and Senate Joint Education Committee Interim Study on Common Core.
The vid linked above is that presentation; he connects the dots and follows the money.