COMMON CORE 101: WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT OUR CHILDREN?

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There's yelling and screaming from all sides of the political spectrum about the educational mandate known best as the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI). It raises a lot more than emotions; it's a nationwide debate. Proponents tout (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzKO5wxwFGw) CCSSI as the greatest achievement since the Enlightenment, while opponents (http://www.youtube.com/watch? v=coRNJluF2O4&feature=plcp) compare it to the Dark Ages, a deliberate dumbing down of America (http://deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf), as Charlotte Iserbyt would say. Iserbyt was the Reagan admin whistleblower who struck a major blow to the technological forerunner to the tracking and data-mining age. So what is Common Core? Common Core is federally-led education introduced in the Obama administration's 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act ("stimulus package") through a contest called Race to the Top (RTTT). States could apply and compete for federal grant money. Four billion in federal taxpayer dollars were offered with a catch: Awards in Race to the Top will go to States that are leading the way with ambitious yet achievable plans for implementing coherent, compelling, and comprehensive education reform. Race to the Top winners will help trail-blaze effective reforms and provide examples for States and local school districts throughout the country to follow as they too are hard at work on reforms that can transform our schools for decades to come. Out with the Bush administration's "No Child Left Behind (NCLB)," criticized (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2008/03/28/AR2008032802976.html) for its "high-stakes" strategy of always teaching to the test. In with the Common Core, a uniform set of standards and curricula that, according to their critics, ratchet up (http://heritageaction.com/2013/04/common-core-federal-overreach-into-theclassroom/) the role of government in education, as well as student data collection, teacher evaluations, and NCLB "empathetic" learning. The result is a Fed-led ed cocktail constructed on the premise (http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/drchristopher-tienken-explains-pisa-and-real-education-beyond-pisa/) that our public schools are low performing, broken, and lacking the kind of rigor necessary for students to compete in the global marketplace. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia jumped onboard with CCSSI, intent to raise the roof beam high on rigor to meet international benchmarks. Best perk? A student could be in Ohio on Tuesday. Wednesday, the family moves to Nevada. Theoretically, he'd pick up in math on the same next page. Wow, sign me up for that! And the online tech tools they're brilliant. Click on a standard. ProQuest K12 from SIRS (Social Issues Resource Series) takes you to scrubbed content from premier education provider of the Common Core, Pearson (http://www.breitbart.com/BigGovernment/2013/12/14/Pearson-Foundation-To-Pay-Millions-In-NY-Settlement-ForFinancing-For-Profit-Common-Core-Aligned-Courses), the London-based conglomerate. Only problem is the info's on the school-sanctioned and cyberlocked iPad (http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/01/local/la-me-1002-lausd-ipads-20131002). Common Core has raised a valid concern: what exactly are they teaching the children?

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Common Core was well pitched (http://eagnews.org/common-core-was-state-led-look-atthe-groups-past-website-and-you-be-the-judge/) as state-led and "voluntary." Even according to the US Department of Education (DOE), public education is described as "...primarily a state and local responsibility in the United States... it is states and communities, as well as public and private organizations of all kinds, that establish schools and colleges, develop curricula, and determine requirements for enrollment and graduation." Yet it's the DOE's actual role (http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/curriculum/2012/02/a_new_white_paper_raises.html) in education that prompted opponents like Diane Ravitch, a two-year veteran of the education department (1991-93) under Lamar Alexander and author of Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools (http://www.amazon.com/Reign-Error-Privatization-MovementAmericas/dp/0385350880), to call the Common Core "NCLB 2.0." Translated: No Child Left Behind on steroids. Ravitch lashed out (http://dianeravitch.net/category/u-s-department-of-education/) at DOE chief Arne Duncan, contrasting him with now-Sen. Alexander, whom she characterized as "scrupulous about not interfering in local decision making. He used his bully pulpit, as all cabinet secretaries do, but he never tried to influence the choice of local leaders. He respected the principle of federalism. Apparently, Duncan missed the class on federalism." Duncan's not the only target of CCSSI critics. Robert Holland, senior fellow at the Heartland Institute, suggested (http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-07-17/news/bsed-core-curriculum-20130717_1_common-core-pros-and-cons-national-standards-andtests) in a Baltimore Sun interview that one reason Common Core "[has] attracted so much opposition from both the right and left is that it was developed in elitist fashion, bankrolled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/education-common-core-standards-schools96964.html#comment-1049628965), presented as a fait accompli without public hearings and then pushed hard by the Obama administration..." Back in June 2010, CCSSI released the English Language Arts/Literacy and Mathematics standards with promises of next-generation Science standards by 2013 and Social Studies standards by 2017. Esteemed educators handpicked to sit on the ELA and math validation committees, Drs. Sandra Stotsky and James Milgram, didn't sign off on the standards, labeling them as inferior. Stotsky, who developed one of the nation's strongest sets of K-12 academic standards and licensing tests for prospective teachers, is now an outspoken staple on the "Stop CCSSI" circuit. Recently, in a Breitbart News interview, she discussed (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/01/14/Expert-Dr-Sandra-StotskyOn-Common-Core-We-Are-A-Very-Naive-People) the spin machine surrounding the standards, saying, "Everyone was willing to believe that the Common Core standards are rigorous, competitive, internationally benchmarked, and research-based. They are not." Common Core is like the convoluted plotline of a daytime drama, impossible to explain in 25 words or less. That's why so many bloggers, news organizations, and talk radio personalities cover it in manageable bites. Ultimately, it lives up to the unfortunate axiom coined by Nancy Pelosi when speaking about Obamacare in 2010: "We have to pass the bill so you can find out what's in it." We have, one worksheet at a time.

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In school work that comes home, we see how foundational math, taught in a spiral fashion to build on concepts from grade to grade, is gone. This is replaced by math lattices, ladders, and linguistics-based long-winded division and distributive property word problems loaded up with social issues, like the "heroin habit" high school math homework that made the rounds. This is only the tip of the iceberg and one reason that critics like Michelle Malkin call it "Rotten to the Core (http://michellemalkin.com/2013/01/23/rotten-to-the-coreobamas-war-on-academic-standards-part-1/)." When Common Core was originally introduced, the National Governor's Association (http://www.natcure.org/what-is-common-core/national-governor-s-association/) (NGA) was its "front man," only these governors weren't governors of any states. NGA is a private non-profit with the Center for Best Practices that co-owns the Common Core State Standards copyright with another non-profit, the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Yes, CCSS is copyrighted (http://www.corestandards.org/public-license); its content cannot be changed. Teachers cannot write their own content. Proponents say there is no content, but there are assessments. These must be testing something, and it stands to reason that whoever controls the tests controls the curricula, and whoever controls the curricula, one fine day, controls the country. For now, many (http://americansforprosperity.org/michigan/newsroom/common-corestandards-top-down-failure-again/) deem Fed-led ed a failure not good for the kids, not good for the teachers. States like New York (http://www.breitbart.com/BigGovernment/2014/01/09/New-York-State-Considers-Delay-Of-Common-CoreStandards) and South Carolina lead the pack in efforts to shut down the test; they join Wisconsin (http://wisconsinfree.com/index.php/articles/532) and Indiana (http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/03/Indiana-Drops-CommonCore-Tests) parents and teachers who stand against (http://eagnews.org/reasons-thepublic-education-system-has-become-increasingly-centralized-4/) centralized education, preferring individual state standards. Big business and big bucks (http://www.breitbart.com/BigGovernment/2014/01/25/Common-Core-Where-Nonprofits-Reaped-Millions) abound in Big Ed, though. CCSSO boasts (http://ccsso.org/Who_We_Are/Business_and_Industry_Partnerships/Corporate_Partners.html) a wow-list of corporate partners on its website topped off by Microsoft, Prometrean, Scantron, K12, Metametrics a.k.a. Lexile, Scholastic, Pearson Education, Apple, and Amplify. Also on the list are the familiar philanthropic and educratic faces: Bill & Melissa Gates (Foundation), Eli Broad, Jeb Bush, Linda Darling-Hammond, Bill Ayers, Achieve, Microsoft, SmarterBalanced Assessment Consortium, PARCC (Partnership for Assessment Readiness for College and Careers), Pearson, InBloom, and the Annenberg Foundation. There was Mike Huckabee. He was for the Core, but now no more, he says. One on NGA's massive corporate fellows list is McKinsey & Co., whom David Coleman (http://dianeravitch.net/2012/05/19/who-is-david-coleman/), president of the College Board, consulted prior to creating think tank Student Achievement Partners, LLC. Although Coleman's never taught a class K-20, he's busy aligning every high school assessment for college (including high school equivalency GED) to CCSSI, with SAT alignment to follow in 2016. Coleman's credited as CCSSI architect along with (http://commoncore.tcoe.org/Content/Public/ELA/InstructionalShiftsELA.pdf) cronies math professor Jason Zimba (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJZY4mh2rt8) and Education Analyst/Curriculum Specialist Susan Pimentel. They say nothing comes from nowhere. Common Core's no exception.

Flashback to November 11, 1992, before the Clinton Administration's Y2K "Improving America's Schools Act," to an 18-page "Dear Hillary" letter that resides in the Congressional Record. Penned by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (http://truthinamericaneducation.com/common-core-statestandards/gates-ncee-influence/) (NCEE) to then-First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, this letter may well be the blueprint (http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/marc_tucker/) for the Common Core. The letter was written one week after Bill Clinton was elected president. Hillary served with Tucker on the NCEE board. In it, Tucker outlined to Hillary the transformation of the entire American system into "a seamless web that extends from cradle to grave" and is the "same system for everyone," coordinated by a "system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels" where curriculum and job matching will be handled by counselors "accessing the integrated computer-based program." The mission of schools would change from "teaching children academic basics and knowledge to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards" in an outcome-based system "guided by clear national standards of performance," set to "international benchmarks" that "define the stages of the system for the people who progress through it." In this "new system of linked standards, curriculum and pedagogy will abandon the American tracking system." Best of all, college loans debt will be forgiven for "public service." Sound familiar? Tucker understood the need for community buy-in to sell the plan. He recommended to Hillary that "...legislation would require the executive branch to establish a competitive grant program for these states and cities and to engage a group of organizations to offer technical assistance to the expanding set of states and cities engaged in designing and implementing the new system." Can you say Race to the Top? Tucker described the roll-out plan: "[As] soon as the first set of states is engaged, another set would be invited to participate, until most or all the states are involved. It is a collaborative design, rollout and scale-up program." The endgame was to "parallel the work of the National Board for College Professional and Technical Standards, so that the states and cities (and all their partners) would be able to implement the new standards as soon as they become available..." The result was that the whole apparatus would be operational in the majority of states within three years from "the passage of the initial legislation." Common Core implementation began (http://www.corestandards.org/in-thestates) in 2010. In the "Elementary and Secondary Education Program" portion of the letter, Tucker speaks directly to Hillary: "so we confine ourselves here to describing some of those activities [to restructure schools] that can be used to launch the Clinton education program," noting that early childhood education "should be combined with quality day care to provide wrap-around programs that enable working parents to drop off their children at the beginning of the workday and pick them up at the end." Universal daycare, preschool to pre-kindergarten? Congress passed every one of the "Dear Hillary" letter ideas. Signed by President Clinton in 1994, the Goals 2000 Act (http://www2.ed.gov/PDFDocs/g2kfinal.pdf), School-toWork Act (http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/Biennial/95-96/eval/410-97.pdf), and the reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act (http://www2.ed.gov/policy/elsec/leg/blueprint/blueprint.pdf) (ESEA) were all funded through federal taxpayer dollars and according to many (http://www.educationviews.org/states-taxpayers-cannot-afford-common-corestandards/) are the very legislation that drives the education machine's mandates at a federal level today. Goodbye 3R's. Hello socially engineered education.

Very long story short, this is the Common Core.

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goolia 4 days ago

Common Core was not created by the states but private organizations in Washington, DC, with lavish funding from private entities such as the Gates Foundation. Powerful people decided that because they had the money and influence to make things happen, they could do so. But in a democracy, the people and in this case, the PARENTS, should have the last word. Decisions such as this ought not be made at secret gatherings of billionaires, politicians and UNESCO to impose the globalism of Common Core that demotes American values, undermines American constitutional principles and detaches students from their families and faith.
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PoliticalBelle 4 days ago

I'm tired of hearing about 'Common Core', No Child left behind & Head Start' !....All, 4 year olds' S/be tested to see if they can, understand the concept, & say "Please & Thank You', B/4 being admitted to the 'Head Start' type programs... The PARENTS of 4 year olds' who can't pass this 'basic' of life, should be reported to 'Child Protective Services' in their States, for 'Intellectual Child Abuse' !
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PoliticalBelle 4 days ago

Isnt that what we just read in the article?

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Glorious_Cause

PoliticalBelle 4 days ago

Homeschool your kids or send them to private schools. If you are unable to do one of those, join the PTA, write your governor and state rep and get Common Core OUT OF YOUR STATE!!
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4 days ago

Yes slaves, get back to work, don't worry, we will raise your children.
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Vinny Gugeech 4 days ago

March will be Heroin History month, April will be Abortion Ed month, May will be LGBT history month, June will be Hate Whitty and our founders month, July will Hispanic history month, August will be Muslim history month shall I go on?
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bafhuggingnanarepublic 4 days ago

My family is this terrible white race apparently. No Irish or other European heritage is celebrated, PERIOD. It's shunned and looked down upon as me being racist. Someone tell me how LGBT, Heroin, Abortion and Muslims are building and uplifting this country?
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bafhuggingnanarepublic 4 days ago

Homeschool Homeschool Homeschool Homeschool Homeschool

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JTW

Vinny Gugeech 4 days ago

except they're not your children, being slaves those children belong to your Masters, the government.
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4 days ago

The government, likes its slaves uneducated, liberals sitting in moms basement, sniffing glue, and wetting the bed.
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Gus Seals 4 days ago

John crapper is a fine example of this.

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Eileen_For_Freedom_Liberty

4 days ago

A "Liberal Paradise" would be a place where everybody has guaranteed employment, free comprehensive healthcare, free education, free food, free housing, free clothing, free utilities, and only Law Enforcement has guns. And believe it or not, such a place does exist...it's called prisonwhich is where we will all beif these enemies of America are allowed to stay in power! WELCOME TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER...but not under my watch! I will fight everything in me to not be a part of this...madness...and every single American who loves their freedoms and liberties should do the same and fight back in every arena you can! TO STOP IT...WE HAVE TO STOP ELECTING THE PUPPETS/PAWNS OF THE NWO...INTO OUR GOVERNMENT! IN BOTH PARTIES...WORKING IN TANDEM TO TAKE AMERICA DOWN...THE OBAMAS, THE CLINTONS, THE BUSHES, THE CARTERS AND ON AND ON AND ON. WE CAN STOP IT AMERICA...AND ONLY...WE...CAN STOP IT AND THE FIRST TEST IN DOING SO COMES IN NOVEMBER OF 2014!
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Eileen_For_Freedom_Liberty 4 days ago

What you described in the first paragraph is what we already have! It's called "prison."
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Eileen_For_Freedom_Liberty 4 days ago

Eileen, I totally get what you are saying; however, it's important to realize it essentially makes no difference who is in office ~ both parties are akin to NWO. George Soros, in fact, doesn't care what party any politician is connected to. He's beyond political parties: His goal is indoctrination of pre-school through college student so they will think, act and respond according to the NWO structure. We're talking future here, so be assured George Soros' son has been well trained with following in his elitist, Zionist NWO father.
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Knowsrightfromwrong 3 days ago

Amen! Not a tad of difference between them. The same lobbies give about equally to both. Just so the prolies can tell the difference between them, they agree to disagree on the tedious BS issue the prolies are obsessed about.

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Writing prompts for sophomores (Pearson workbook): Do your parents fight? What do they fight about? Are you afraid when they fight? If your parents wanted to home school you, how would you argue against it?
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rennyangel2 4 days ago

Absolutely right! This is so our children will all lovingly join hands and sing the praises of a Global Government with one voice and much critisism of their (very stupid) parents who were against such brilliant ideas. Do NOT doubt that this is what Common Core is all about. A Common -one world-core of beliefs that are not part of any sovereign nation. (That idea is sooooo cave-man days). Children: "Like, um, yeah . . . um, . . like we are so much . . . like , smarter .. um, than our parents are . . um, . ...." . . .as the Globalists direct them what to do and say and think next on their new whats-it phone requiring no hands. "God, . . old people are like . . um . . so stupid!"
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rennyangel2 4 days ago

Credible link?
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TylerDurden 4 days ago

SEEN WITH MY OWN EYES. Otherwise, look at Pearson books.

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rennyangel2 4 days ago

Pearson books are not a requirement. I don't have any to fact check you, sorry.
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TylerDurden 3 days ago

Like I care if you fact check me or not. Go pound sand.

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TylerDurden 4 days ago

Here we go with the leftist liar assault. Let me guess--you're here to assure everyone that if we like our doctor and plan, we can keep them, right? Oh, wait. Wrong topic. OK--you're here to assure everyone that it is state led and not another crushing, bureaucratic, soul-less non-functioning monstrosity to be installed by The State. Right?

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rennyangel2 4 days ago

Oh and do they have any guns?

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4 days ago

HS teachers still do not know, or are able to teach math or the sciences. No amount of common core will change this
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4 days ago

It is part of the Marxist agenda to transform America that Obama sometimes brings up but when confronted by O'Reilly he forgot Look at their [plan and how far they are on it: http://www.westernjournalism.c...
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firewalker25b

4 days ago

COMMON CORE 101: WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT OUR CHILDREN? Designed to dumb down our Children's future and create more DELUSIONAL SOCIALIST DEMOCRATS.
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firewalker25b

4 days ago

COMMON CORE 101: WHAT IS IT AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT OUR CHILDREN? Well WE will not see any of our children growing up and placing men or women on the moon or other planets along with being INNOVATIVE. REGRESSION of our young minds.
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rockychance

4 days ago

This is all COMMUNISM pure and simple and your children will be slaves to the government for the "GOOD" of us all. No more freedom folks. We have been stupid and asleep at the switch. Marijuana and illicit sex are far more important to the average American and someday they will wake up but it will be too late for us.
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rockychance 4 days ago

Sound like you would like to make us all slaves to your morality.
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Matt 4 days ago

Progs want to make us slaves to THEIR morality, by controlling what we say, think, do, drive, eat, drink, where we go to school, which doctor we see and when, how much energy we consume, where we live and so on. Get a clue.
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Quote from Article: """a seamless web that extends from cradle to grave" and is the "same system for everyone," coordinated by a "system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal

everyone," coordinated by a "system of labor market boards at the local, state and federal levels" where curriculum and job matching will be handled by counselors "accessing the integrated computer-based program." The mission of schools would change from "teaching children academic basics and knowledge to training them to serve the global economy in jobs selected by workforce boards""" Meaning: From Each According to Their Abilities, to Each According to Their Needs
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4 days ago

Common Core is all too common. Its liberal Common Communism, Common Cronyism, Common Corruption, and Common Incompetence all rolled up into one giant federalized program thats from the government and here to help your child. Do everything in your power to fight this concentration camp curriculum or it will be your grandchildren sending your children to the reeducation camps (you will have already been euthanized for your lack of service and contribution to the benevolent state). Is my hyperbole over the top? 5 years ago I might have thought so
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rockychance

4 days ago

Do not forget that JEB BUSH backed this and his brother, good old GW had an open door policy with Mexico in order to get cheap labor, undermine the American children and help his brother run in 2016 but guess what George boy, we ain't gonna buy your garbage anymore--vote no to Bush family of sellouts
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rockychance 4 days ago

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Don't forget NAFTA, TTC, and other shady legislation.

4 days ago

Funny, our parents and their parents did not have bureaucrat controlled schooling, and they were usually well educated. It's so simple, hire quality people and turn 'em loose.
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rottenrollin

4 days ago

Common Core........ From the makers of the ObamaScam......

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the3Ds 4 days ago

I am happy my kid in middle school is learning about self-determination and freedom in his social studies class. However, CC throughout the nation holds kid back in math as they cannot do Algebra 1 in 8th grade. Whereas all of the private and charter schools do have advanced kids taking Alg 1 in 7th or 8th.. its because of "the test." They do not have a CC test which would allow a kid to move up.
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the3Ds 4 days ago

My 5th grader went from being great at math to terrible at math. He was being taught UN doctrine, aka UDHR earlier this year and for the last several months "Mexican Culture". Oh yea, this is in NY. So far, I see no benefits to my child.
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4 days ago

2+2=5
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4 days ago

Did anyone catch the Oreilly interview with bumbum. The part about the school voucher program is an eye opener. Straight from Obamas mouth he clearly states he is against it because it helps kids. Equal outcome is not equal opportunity, remember that next time a liberal speaks about equality
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Chris D 4 days ago

I hang around with a lot of progressive people, and they never talk about equal outcomes. I know you won't, but I wish you would cite some examples where folks on the left are calling for equal outcomes. ... I think the argument is that the bus drivers, home health aides and preschool teachers of the world should be able to earn a living wage and retire with some dignity, even if they don't have a job that makes them wealthy, or even upper middle class. What's wrong with that?
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Matt 4 days ago

I wish you would cite some examples where folks on the left are calling for equal outcomes It is implicit in their worldview. For them ANY unequal outcome is--in and of itself--PROOF of discrimination and the need for quotas, targets, goals, etc.
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Progressives push Common Core because (just as communists) they, through education, want to control the message and indoctrinate our children. States and local governments should exercise their independence and not kowtow to these shenanigans.
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4 days ago

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Matt 4 days ago

It isn't that Common Core is a disaster, it is the idea that a central governing authority and control what is taught in the public schools. Much of the area has already succumbed to quackery before Common Core but it not only places accesses to ideas under federal control, it also opens the door for the federal government to impose a type of education that is largely influenced by lobbyists and special interests.
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Fred Bastiat

4 days ago

Common Core = No Accountability for Teachers Common Core = No Accountability for Students No accountability for teachers + no accountability for students = no accountability for tax payer money. Welcome to the age of Obama, a little bit 1984 and a little bit Brave New World with Washington aspiring to be The Capital of Panem.
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