This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
Posted on 06/14/2016 8:10:31 AM PDT by milton23
A recently-released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core State Standards do not adequately prepare students for college-level work.
The ACT report finds many concerning shortcomings in the Common Core State Standards, which have been adopted by most states. Notably, the report reveals:
While secondary teachers may be focusing on source-based writing [essays written about source-based documents], as emphasized in the Common Core, college instructors appear to value the ability to generate sound ideas more than some key features of source-based writing.
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Uhm, duh, everyone knows it’s spelled collej.
But, Yeb Bush and all the Bushbots say this is a great program, not to mention all the faux conservatives.
Common Core prepares ‘heads full of mush’ to be just that, drone worker bees for their masters in big government and loyal voters for the party that supports ‘gimmedats’.
No sh+t Sherlock. Common Core has one overarching goal-the uniform dumbing down of future voters through mandated education protocols.
As screwed-up as our colleges and universities have become, how pathetic must Common Core be that it doesn’t even prepare students for those weak institutions?
The public school system has been doing that long before Common Core, but it certainly doesn’t help. In the late 90s, over a dozen of my classes were termed “college-preparatory”, but they did little to prepare me and I did poorly in college. Part was my own maturity, but the other part was that it was also intellectually overwhelming for me at the time.
This is a crisis we'd better get a handle on before it's too late -- if it isn't already!
Common Core was never meant to prepare students for college or for anything useful. It’s designed to deprive students of the ability to think critically.
I was just scanning down the headlines on the News/Activism page, and shaking my head that these headlines are even being written. It has occurred to me that Common Core or no Common Core, our society has done a very bad job of preparing the next generation for what’s coming. These young people have been sold an ideology that denies some very fundamental truths about they world they live in and basic human nature. These truths are as immutable as the laws of physics, and the next generation thinks they can ignore them.
The result is going to be a train wreck, and they won’t be able to fix it because their ideology prevents them from realizing why they sent the train off the rails to begin with.
Of course it doesn’t because it doesn’t do the things that higher mathematics requires.....To do math successfully one needs to know (off the top of your head) your arithmetic tables. You need to know algebra and geometry. This two types of mathematics help you form proofs and look at things analytically.
Common core looks at numbers and tries to have children conceptualize group theory and number theory....those are advance mathematical constructs. The little brains of children do not do well with that approach
The result? The result you can see ... the people who graduated in the 60's, dropouts or half-baked intellectuals, are now occupying the positions of power in the government, civil service, business, mass media, and educational systems. You are stuck with them. You can't get through to them. They are contaminated. They are programmed to think and react to certain stimuli in a certain pattern [alluding to Pavlov]. You cannot change their mind even if you expose them to authentic information. Even if you prove that white is white and black is black, you still can not change the basic perception and the logic of behavior.
The demoralization process in the United States is basically completed already for the last 25 years. Actually, it's over fulfilled because demoralization now reaches such areas where not even Comrade Andropov and all his experts would even dream of such tremendous success. Most of it is done by Americans to Americans thanks to lack of moral standards. As I mentioned before, exposure to true information does not matter anymore. A person who was demoralized is unable to assess true information. The facts tell nothing to him, even if I shower him with information, with authentic proof, with documents and pictures. ...he will refuse to believe it.... That's the tragedy of the situation of demoralization. "
College is just the remedial institution for all the lessons that failed to take earlier.
And colleges are equally as unable to instill any collective wisdom as every stage of public schools were before the young skulls full of mush got that far.
Common Core is just the right recipe to create the New Progressive person demanded by the New World Order. Whatever that may be.
Yeb is invested in Pearson, which has the contract for materials for the Common Core “curriculum.”
HEHEHEHEHE I have always believed that the COMMONCORE PRGRAM was a Wagon-Load of Manure. (Father of a Teacher, Father-In-Law of a Teacher now a School Principal)
Interesting that college professors find that their students cannot distinguish between option, fact and reasoned judgement. Seems like that would be ideal for indoctrinating them to liberal ideology
It doesn’t prep them for anything except never-ending welfare checks..................
Mission accomplished. Now the education gap between whites and blacks is closing; unfortunately, it is closing in the only way liberals are capable of closing such gaps: Downward.
So, how many years has this fiasco been hoisted on American schools?
Another FAILED Liberal idea — looked good on paper.
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How long will it take the ‘victims’ of this social experiement to recover?
I don’t think it ever was intended to prep for college - but to dumb down a generation and make easier sheeple.
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