Posted on 09/17/2015 9:41:14 AM PDT by george76
The state of New York looks to be the next state with plans to re-brand the Common Core by calling it something else but otherwise making virtually no substantive curriculum changes.
New York Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch announced in a public radio interview on Tuesday that education bureaucrats are “toying with” the possibility of a new statewide name for the perpetually unpopular Common Core State Standards Initiative...
There is so much politicization about those words — ‘Common Core,'” Tisch said in the interview. “So we can call them the Empire State Standards, or New York’s Higher Standards.
The crafty, high-risk, high-reward name-change strategy currently under consideration by New York education officials originated in “Coming to America,” a 1988 comedy in which Eddie Murphy plays a wealthy African prince who works at a fast food restaurant in Queens, New York called McDowell’s
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Iowa has implemented the McDowell Strategy by changing the name of Common Core from Common Core to “The Iowa Core.”
Florida plans to fool everybody by rebranding Common Core as the “Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.” ..
Arizona has superficially changed the name Common Core to “Arizona College and Career Ready Standards...
Louisiana also considered the tactic.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
NYS used to have a relative common circulum run by the State Board of Regents. It seemed to work well in the 50s and 60s.
bush loves common core and actually beleives in “global warming”.
This official must have taken a class from Jonathan Gruber...
“...the stupidity of the voters....”
Anyone remaining in NY has no one to blame but themselves for their situation. They can move. They don’t.
Words have meaning.
Words like “Empire”.
That’s the standard Soros technique.
He changes the names the names of groups he bankrolls every 2 to 3 years.
How many new names doe MOVEon org have today?
(With the very same people running them.)
A 'Regents Diploma' was a sign and symbol of academic success at a high level,
and was highly valued both in NYS , and at out of state colleges, and was a sign of college preparedness .
Little known was that there was also a 'General Education' diploma for High School achievement and graduation,
but with less challenging academic level,but still valued.
The establishment of Common Core demonstrates how much NYS is willing to sell out academics to National standards for the sake of $$$ by the Governor.
If it looks like it ..,
smells like it ..,
and draws flies ..,
You have reason to beleive it is*it !
So they are putting new lipstick on the old sow and trying to sell it.
George Lakoff is the Leftist officially in charge of inventing new names for things to hide what they’re really up to.
I have a Regents Diploma and had more than adequate prep for college.
“NYS used to have a relative common circulum run by the State Board of Regents. It seemed to work well in the 50s and 60s.”
Right. And consider this: we had a vibrant space program and even landed men on the moon with those basic standards and chalkboards, textbooks, and slide rules.
These Common Core, or whatever they’re going to call it, are not a step forward at all. It’s more than a step back.
True enough. But, last I knew, the textbooks say "Common Core Edition" and the like.
That’s what liberals do, change the name of their failed policies.
My friend who writes test questions for ACT said that’s what they do, simply drop all references to “Common Core”, but still use the guidelines to write the questions.
The liberals are masters of deceptive names to “package” their evil policies:
-”Affirmative Action” - is actually state-sanctioned racism.
-”Tolerance” - is actually accepting mediocrity and aberrant behavoir
-”Multiculturism” - is actually a code word for “non-white”
-”Liberal” now has nothing to do with “Liberty”. Rather it has to do with socioeconomic fascism.
and so on...
Conservatives need to wage war on these words and replace them in the common vernacular with appropriate words.
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