What is Common Core?

[Lenno]

Jeb Bush loves Common Core

[Crash_Test_Dhimmi]

I have a moderate income, but my wife insists on us living paycheck to paycheck just so my son can go to a private school. It is money well spent

[chel0524]

I teach at a (thankfully) private Christian school. In my first grade class, I teach my students to measure using inches and centimeters. We can read almost any book by the end of the school year, can do double digit addition of multiple numbers, double digit subtraction, add simple fractions, know numerous things about the founding of country and our presidents and I could go on and on with what they know by the end of the school year.

I am working on my masters degree and sometimes have to submit lesson plans for an assignment. I continually have to dumb them down to get them to pass my professors requirements. For instance, here in Kentucky our common core standards require first graders to measure using non-standard units. What does that mean? It means forget using inches and centimeters and try seeing how many hands long your desk is. How many paperclips long your paper is. It's the absolute stupidest thing I've ever seen.

[Snowbandit]

Another excellent article on Common-Core.

http://www.newswithviews.com/Thompson/mary102.htm

[jonlambert73]

Education Is the ‘Common Core’ Initiative Dumbing Down America’s Students?

Mar. 14, 2013 9:09pm Tiffany Gabbay
Last week TheBlaze covered in detail the controversial school curriculum system — one that had students actually design a socialist flag — out of Texas dubbed CSCOPE. Thursday, however, the focus turned to another disturbing initiative in America’s education system: Common Core Standards State Standards.
The Common Core State Standards initiative is, according to its official website, a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), developed “in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts, to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce.”
The standards are said to be:

Aligned with college and work expectations;
Clear, understandable and consistent;
Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills;
Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards;
Are informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and
Are evidence-based.

Your browser does not support iframes.In terms of Common Core, Glenn Beck noted that “if we don’t save education,” so goes the country. He added that parents will need to stand up and challenge their school districts and even change school districts to enact change.
With reportedly nearly every state in the union — adopting similar education programs, Common Core is influenced by successes in other countries and was never drafted with full scrutiny from the public. Beck added that states had a mere two months to commit to the plan during summer months in which state legislators were out of session.



Meanwhile, the federal government is, Beck noted, encouraging states to adopt Common Core. States that adopt common core can, according to Beck, receive waivers of the most demanding provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act.
To glean greater insight and find out more about the key leaders involved in the initiative, like Linda Darling-Hammond who served as an Obama advisor, are, Beck brought on special guests to discuss Common Core in depth.
On the panel was 31-year teaching veteran David Cox, who retired from his Utah school last year because of Common Core and is now teaching at a charter school. He is also a former legislator who helped to create standard levels for his district.
Christal Swasey, another former public school teacher who left the trade because of Common Core. She believes that the initiative is “dumbing down” children by giving “informational texts” instead of training students in the classic literature. She has also brought up the fact that Common Core poses a threat to student and family privacy.
Your browser does not support iframes.Also on the panel was Emmett McGroarty, an attorney with American Principles Project, an organization that challenges privacy issues with Common Core and Shereena Arrington, a former professor with a background in constitutional law and grassroots activist against who believes that Common Core renders teachers and parents powerless to bureaucrats in Washington.
Collectively, the panel’s objective is to lead the fight against Common Core Standards as they have seen the program’s detrimental effects
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...icas-students/
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The plan includes Life Time Tracking of students with embeded chips with ALL personal data including religious data, banning of students from collage with a home or private education.
the plan turns classic education standards upside down with a different form of math and reading that ill turn children into Haters of knowladge,,,,ie Slaves

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[Echo]

The partnership for 21st Century Learning is also a major player is the skewing of our educational system. They have a foothold in several states, and are aligning themselves with Common Core. Both programs having the same goals.

http://www.p21.org/storage/documents/P21_CoSN_2012.pdf

A basic breakdown:

Your children are now "global citizens" with Human Rights....not Americans with natural rights.

Critical thinking = questioning everything until no "core values" remain.

Working in groups to the extent that individual accomplishment is impossible.

American children will have the same educational opportunities as kids in Botswana...

[niceguy]

Critical thinking = questioning everything until no "core values" remain.

After puzzling over the meaning of "critical thinking" for a while, I came to the same conclusion, though not stated as well. Thanks!