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Democrats fought it tooth and nail because its anti-teachers union. Measurement that makes it harder to fudge our results? No way!
Republicans strangely enough fought it because it was "big government telling students how to learn"
Conservatives use Common Core as a prism for their pre-existing political views. Because a number of them had soured on government-led education reform once a Democrat got into office, they have once again led the calls against "federal overreach," not really knowing much about education reforms generally, let alone the specifics of each.
That hasn't stopped liberals from doing the same. While conservative education reformers generally loathe national anything, but like accountability, liberals love national anything, but loathe anything that stinks of accountability and that which doesn't present teaching as some untouchable art. As a result they pilloried it as corporatism, which is really just a short-cut to their antagonism for corporations in general. They get ill at the notion of hearing education lingo change from service sector bureaucracy-speak to business-speak. Instead of the notion that a student and family were "clients" (a common term in the state-led human service industry), families and students were now seen as "consumers." This makes the teacher unions shriek in horror in itself.
Common Core is an ineffective reform that was pursued in the hopes of someday getting at a bigger reform: curricular reform. It hasn't done so. It, in itself, plays no significant role whatsoever in the quality of our education system. It is neither an enemy nor a friend. It is, on balance, meaningless.
Opposition to common core is so interesting. It originated with private philanthropic reform to start measurement of public/government run education, that has been resistant to reform and measurement for decades. They had numerous high profile CEOs supporting it, their interest...to get ****ing education employees.
Democrats fought it tooth and nail because its anti-teachers union. Measurement that makes it harder to fudge our results? No way!
Republicans strangely enough fought it because it was "big government telling students how to learn"
As usual, while I find the Democrat position entirely wrong and unethical...but it makes sense from a political standpoint (no changes! very conservative of them...). The conservative position, I have no idea what it means. Government has been running educaiton for years, this was the very first step in reform from OUTSIDE government...why the backlash... Change is hard, especially for the old guard.
common core is the ultimate failure of government attempting to control something.
I have to deal with this BS on a daily basis. the instructions are non-existent.
the questions are vague with abstract methods of figuring it out.
that is why you end up with this stupidity.
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that is just 1 question out of dozens that I have had to mess with when it comes to common core.
my daughter gets so frustrated over it as well.
the kid's answer was technically correct given the question. Marty's pizza was simply bigger.
That's the fault of curriculum selected by states and schoolboards, not the standards.
no those are the standards. the book clearly says common core math on them.
Texas has been a big player in mandating bias as well as idiocy in our primary school textbooks over decades. It would take a lot of good work for them to be fairly judged to be overall a positive for education.
I think you are getting confused between curriculum and standards. Standards have nothing to do with specific questions all they do is set a minimum standard that must be met and the questions and the curriculum itself are solely the responsibility of the state or the school board as it is their job to create a curriculum around the standards.
again I will point to the math book that squarely says common core on the front of it.
again I will point to the math book that squarely says common core on the front of it.
people can try to defends this POS but they simply can't. the reason schools are dropping is because parents and everyone else is up in arms.
kids are confused and parents are frustrated because of the materials.
I frankly canned what the books said and told my daughter how to do it.
I don't defend it so much as to correct nonsense from people who don't know what they are talking about.
common core is the ultimate failure of government attempting to control something.
I have to deal with this BS on a daily basis. the instructions are non-existent.
the questions are vague with abstract methods of figuring it out.
that is why you end up with this stupidity.
Child's Math Problem About Pizza Is Making Us So Confused! | 97.3fm - Brisbane's widest variety of music from the '80s to now
that is just 1 question out of dozens that I have had to mess with when it comes to common core.
my daughter gets so frustrated over it as well.
the kid's answer was technically correct given the question. Marty's pizza was simply bigger.
common core is the ultimate failure of government attempting to control something.
I have to deal with this BS on a daily basis. the instructions are non-existent.
the questions are vague with abstract methods of figuring it out.
that is why you end up with this stupidity.
Child's Math Problem About Pizza Is Making Us So Confused! | 97.3fm - Brisbane's widest variety of music from the '80s to now
that is just 1 question out of dozens that I have had to mess with when it comes to common core.
my daughter gets so frustrated over it as well.
the kid's answer was technically correct given the question. Marty's pizza was simply bigger.
people can try to defends this POS but they simply can't. the reason schools are dropping is because parents and everyone else is up in arms.
kids are confused and parents are frustrated because of the materials.
I frankly canned what the books said and told my daughter how to do it.
and what did that teach her?
that was a great question for a kid to ponder
not necessarily a easy one
which i believe identifies which side of the common core issue one is on
one wants simple
the other seeks smart
"make things as simple as possible, but not simpler"
those opposed to common core ignore Einstein's admonition and insist on making their kids' study simpler
how to do it correctly and understand the answer.
she went from getting a C in math to a B.