Posted on 01/17/2018 11:16:30 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave a far-ranging speech today in Washington at an American Enterprise Institute conference, “Bush-Obama School Reform: Lessons Learned.”
She announced the death of Common Core, at least in her federal agency.
DeVos also decried the federal government’s initiatives to improve education. “We saw two presidents from different political parties and philosophies take two different approaches. Federally mandated assessments. Federal money. Federal standards. All originated in Washington, and none solved the problem. Too many of America’s students are still unprepared,” she said.
And she touched on a favorite topic, school choice.
“Choice in education is not when a student picks a different classroom in this building or that building, uses this voucher or that tax-credit scholarship. "
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Good deal, Betsy. Time to close the the agency down.
Good news from the Trump administration.
(Notice that NEITHER Ryan NOR McConnell had their hands in this process?)
I agree, and I'll bet Mrs. DeVos also agrees. So why don't you ask her?
Nonsense! That's like saying very few people need dishwashers. Technically true, but at the sacrifice of a profoundly useful tool. For example, the beauty of Algebra is it teaches you to use what you do know to find out what you don't know.
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I certainly hope they keep the Singapore Math (Common Core) method in the curriculum.
While it does seem unwieldy for simplistic equations it is a fantastic introduction to logical deduction and multiple checks for the validity of your conclusions.
Thanks Besty! You have been quietly laboring away in the Vineyards of the Lord. Thanks again!
Beyond Geometry. If I could draw a Venn diagram, it would include Algebra in the set called ‘foundationally useful secondary mathematics’.
And there needs to be bodies under that tombstone!
Geez, I had not only algebra, but advanced algebra, trigonometry, statistics, plain and solid geometry, and calculus by 12th grade. I’ve used all of it from time to time. Lack of education is one of the problems the US faces. Knowing that something exists is no substitute for actually knowing that something.
When I got to college I didn’t need to waste course time with math - and was waved.
When I became a welder I need much of that math to make the right angled cuts, lengths and correct weld depths.
If you don’t know math, or are at least passing familiar, how are you going to help your kids when they need it?
Education is a joke in this country these days and mostly consists of rote learning, passing over reading, writing and math. Then rapidly moving on to climate, social justice issues, and ‘fantasy’ US history - wherein kids learn to be good voters for the Democrat party, and never learn how to learn; never learning the self-discipline of long hours of home work each night.
I was thinking, Jeb! is going to be deeply-saddened.
That said, I'd like to see the basic elements of early and middle school education return to what has served generations so well; meaning traditional math and phonics and good, clear writing. Additionally, some sorts of success metrics need to be involved, as I do not trust all teachers.
At one point in DeVos's speech, she said...
Let’s trust teachers, too. Let’s encourage them to innovate, to create new options for students. Not just with public charter schools or magnet schools or private schools, but within the traditional “system” and with new approaches yet to be explored.
With respect and admiration for Secretary DeVos, the education system has never suffered from a lack of innovation or creativity, it has lacked the ability to use them well and to stand accountable for their failures. This current system apears to be far too willing to use bogus "research" to affect sweeping changes that anchor our kids and grandkids to the lower rungs of the educational success chart.
If an educational innovation is found, after years, to be an obstacle to a sound education, good, intelligent, and otherwise motivated children will never reach their potential; and, this is truly tragic.
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Well said.
Our local conservative radio host spoke several times recently on trying to help her daughter with common core math. The teacher has to send out video links to THE PARENTS so they can teach themselves how to do common core math to help their kids do their home work. These parents are doctors and engineers and yes, radio hosts and they can’t do multiplication!!! Common Core math (thank you Microsoft) is alive and well in South Carolina!
Next, she needs to dismantle the Department of Education.
You have my prayers Sir!
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I pray for him and Pence and members of their team every day.
[a guac bowl]
Speaking of guacamole bowls, I saw bowls just like Jeb! had for $75 for $1 at the Dollar Store the other day - and in various colors. And Jeb! didn’t even give those stupid enough to support him his “secret guacamole recipe”.
Frankly, a man that dumb and NWO traitorous, I wouldn’t trust it for food.
As long as there are standardized testing to measure student and teacher performance you will have some variant of common core or teaching to the test.
I lump Trig in with Geometry.
Algebra 2 through Calc is baked into whatever software system used in whatever specific application folks end up doing.
Engineers were surveyed about when the last time they integrated or took a derivative, and the number was in the single digit percentages. I did that research for a econ development project I was hired to do for a county in 2015.
Today, a college education and a dollar doesn’t buy coffee. A CCNA, MS SQL cert, or some such similar cert gets you a job.
Most of the people we recruit out of engineering schools are simply not ready in anything, regardless of what they took in school.
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