Common Core Critique

The CCSS adds nothing to what we know about how to teach reading. It adds nothing to how we teach arithmetic and mathematics. It adds nothing to how we teach history, geography, and the “social studies.” In short, it is a fraud to get the American taxpayer to shell out big bucks for something that we already know how to do.  Yes, science has greatly expanded, but it also expanded from 1850 to 1950 and didn’t require a different methodology from the scientific method developed by the great scientists of the past. We may have better equipment which students of science must learn to operate, but the scientific method has not changed.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/...mmon-core-curriculum

As I've stated before, the math is not well done -- the new math rehashed -- making it more confusing. Bush's No Child Left Behind was panned because of too much teach to the test. CC does it on steroids.  Finally, the feds requirement of extremely detailed data. I have no problem with aggregate data by ethnicity, age, gender, school etc.  However, the feds demand a by student data base -- names and all. Sorry, enough spying upon us -- no dossiers of the citizenry, nor Inspector Javerts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...y-common-core-tests/

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Best solution -- starve the beast -- don't participate.

From what I gather from explanations on the internet , common core math teaches nothing as to how number systems work. From the examples I have seen, there is no way to correlate how to add or do math in different number systems, like octal, or binary , or hexadecimal. It is a severe disservice to kids to not explain how numbers work, and as far as I can tell, common core does nothing about that.

The same reason they attack and punish them for being children. The same reason they want to medicate them for being children. Cripple them is the correct term.

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Exactly, its dumbed down math theory taught in college -- except for mathematicians and a few others, none will have need of it.  Takes a fairly simple subject taught for thousands of years and unnecessarily complicates it.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't most of the d  a ms  in the world built by folks that were taught math the old way?

The US put a man on the moon with people that used slide rules.

I don't think teaching students the answer to test is the right way, teach them how to find the answers.

We allow this and problems like this to rank America 314th in overall

education. Liberals get away with kind of crap all the time so as not to hurt

anyone's feelings. We are now taught to keep education, military and

religion separated from God. I don't know which God is which anymore.

I don't know what country runs our schools or control's our military.

The giveaway in the last six years has been catastrophic.

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That's the scary part, seeing how fast they moved and how much they've destroyed in such a few years. That's why I worry if we can survive them two more years, or if their claws and teeth will be in too deep.

I've gotten a good dose of common core trying to help my kids do their homework.  In summation, it sux.  Nothing more to say.

US spends more than any other nation for education.  Money is not the problem.

awww quit bawling about Alabama Common Core. Its over your heads. The lesson plans are all designed by your neighborhood teachers. Many are designed by Huntsville teachers. I've seen several designed by local teachers; Forrest Hills for instance. They are designed right here in red neck AL. LOL

At a service club meeting the other night I heard 2 people who had been teachers for over 25 years discussing this. One was for common core, one was against.