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Common Core Or "Communist Core"
You know things have become bad when... Common core is so wonderful that Lily Tang Williams, a Chinese-American mother of three who grew up in Communist China, says it reminds her of her oppressive, statist nature of her childhood education.
"Communist" Core...
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Both systems probably designed by the same people...
Like the Michelle Obama school lunch program, common core is a foul tasting brew. The goal of common (or more precisely "con man" as in Bush or Obama) core is to turn out brain addled wrecks of students, students with will have learned not to think but to parrot back facts. It is only a matter of time before the U.S. thought police replace teachers with robots, to ensure the brain damaging effects of common core are taught exactly as our New World Order masters want.
"Both systems probably designed by the same people..." ----- ZerOhead
Well, you are correct.
"I mistakenly thought that China during the revolutionary period was one country that had not felt the Jewish embrace. In fact, 85 to 90% of the foreigners helping the Chinese at the time of the Communist takeover were Jewish."
http://forward.com/the-assimilator/159051/a-jew-in-maos-china/
Can we get Billy Ayers to comment?
Yes - his words but someone else's lips moving...
Of course. All written by the same FJ's.
Both are fascist, police states that maintain power by brainwashing their citizens from a very young age.
Forward
According to liberals, fascist police states are loving and care about you. See how they take your money and give it to Wall Street for your own good? You would have never thought to do that.
You mean the present government now in charge, the one previously in charge, and likely the one still in charge after 2016?
It's the same chain, every 4 years we get a new link added.
Indoctrination Core.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
Another libertarian crumb .... followed by a socialist slogan .... when someone tries to be on both sides .... chances are you are a socialist ?
Another statist scum. Chances are you're a neocon?
like LBJ and FDR or Woodrow Wilson?
3 shits
All Wars are Progressive/Banker Wars? Neo-cons - the con is where they deceive simple people into accepting them.
Kchrisc,
What does Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity mean to you?
"Kchrisc, What does Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity mean to you? "
Simple answer:
What is Zion: "Zionism is a fifth-column system of organized plunder that operates on a national and international level via fraudulent-reserve banks, dependent governments, and connected and derivative firms."
Longer answer:
It is first a counter to how people have been trained to associate revelations and negative associations with Zion and Zionism as antisemitism. To counter the cries of "antisemitism" against legitimate critiques of the behavior of certain people associated with, or of, Zion in the plunder and destruction of countries, societies, and peoples.
Zionism itself was born as a scheme to steal the land of Palestine from its inhabitants, Arab and Jew alike (See the writings of Theodor Herzl.). This scheme has continued and come to manifest itself as a fifth-column colonizing, exploiting and plundering force over the American country and people.
Having been purchased, lock, stock, and barrel, by Zion and the Rothschilds in 1913, the tyranny that is the DC US now serves and promotes only Zionism over the American people. While the DC US is a tool of plunder of the American country, it also serves as Zion's preferred tool of plunder, death, and destruction of other peoples overseas.
So, though Zionism is dominated by "Jews, it is really nothing more than a scheme of subjugation and plunder, backed by the violence of dependent governments.
Coda:
Above all, it is hoped that my tagline will induce people to think, not agree, but think, about Zion, what it, and they, are, and what it means to them, and their future, and also what it means to the American country and people.
Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.
When you're quoting Freedomworks, you'vel lost all perspective.
I'm not sure what's happened to ZH, but it's becoming a waste of time.
Go for the ad hominem. That's one way to avoid the subject.
Actually, an ad hominem is when someone attacks the poster. When someone attacks the source cited by another, it is a criticism of that site.
How goes the NSA and/or Mises Institute job? See, that's an ad hominem.
If only Ayn Rand were pretty.
You need more practice at logic. It was an attack on the poster if you look at it as an attack on his judgment.
Here's a similar example: LetThemEatRand. What a horrible choice for a handle. I can't get my mind around the idea of eating Ayn Rand, sexual or otherwise. I don't know how Brandon could do it.
So being pretty is a requirement?
Would YOU go down on Hillary, or Caitlyn Jenner?
Naw.....you libbies generally avoid the consequences of your actions.
It must be so comforting to be able to filter all information based on its source before it breaks through your cocoon.
Dutch Boy is the product .... of a Common Core education .... so we know the downside ?
Horseshit, I went to private school, where we learned mental math . Most of you morons can't add up a series of numbers without a pencil and paper or calculator
Nice try, dipshit but its a BIG FAIL.
They need to stop teaching tests, and start making kids think.
Wait what am I saying? That won't create a nation of mindless consumer zombies!
Yes, but 'thinking about what' is the question isn't it? I just read an article about the State of South Dakota BoEd deciding that no more history pre war between the states would be taught. One teacher quoted stated that 'history is Not about the past, but understanding today.' Can you fcking believe it? I am screaming in my head until I have a migraine.
Just wait until Alphabet gets everything nice and scrubbed. There will be no history before what the chosen decide. Stories of 50,000 year old hammers. Gone. Only the chosen matter. Want to challenge that? Outlawed. Just as in Germany and other once fine nations it is illegal to challenge the chosen point of view of history. When books are banned, or priced so far out of reach that only the chosen can afford them, all will be changeable at the stroke of a keyboard.
He who controls the past controls the future - Mental Enslavement 101
Do you understand why they wont teach that?
It doesn't matter if they can do basic math or read. As long as they think. It feels good.
do you understand that they standardized tests only require the students to perform basic math up to division, fractions, and decimals in order to pass? We're supopsed to believe that those tests are oppressive?
I help my daughter with her homework every night. Common core math is how the kids who understood math did it naturally and tried to explain how easy it was to the boogins. It's math, numbers, and the ease of which they can be applied. Welcome to a world that moves without you fucktards.
Math is not really debateable at the elementary -> Highschool level. That is a poor argument. What people are worried about is white washing history.
“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” - 1984, George Orwell
Obligatory RAtM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA1bHZUp46o
There's plenty of ways to teach math. It's been successfully taught for thousands of years. Suddenly these inbred left-wing cretins come along and tell everyone that thousands of years of teaching math have been wrong. Go to any graduate math program and you'll see a classroom full of foreign students that were not taught using communist core. Yet somehow they were able to excel at math.
Good interview with Charlotte Iserbyt here that indicates the destruction of the educational system appears to be quite intentional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnWbKQcElGk
I'm afraid I must dissent. During the great downturn, I parked my ass in community college for two years and got a real good look at the math skills of recent high school graduates.
I coined my own term for it: the Jethro-ization of the American educational system. Even the alert, upper middle class kids were utterly clueless about such arcane concepts as fractions. Every one of them I met, no matter how nice a person they were or how motivated to succeed they were, was sporting a circa-1972 Sixth Grade educational level.
So far as the math went, there was a remedial sub-100 level course that msot students took (090)
Of course they needed to take the sub-sub remedial course first (060)
But weren't qualified to take that until they had taken the sub-sub-sub remedial 030 course.
That's 1 1/2 years of remedial math courses to be taken by two-year-degree students in order to get them ready for their first math course.
Oh, and there was a special 100-level math course for liberal arts majors that was, you guessed it, dumbed down from the regular 100 level math course.
Guess which one was a minimum pre-requisite for Educational degrees?
Forget about the politicians and the bankers. Exile the entire educational establishment and the country will heal itself. Leave them in their comfy niches and the end remains foreordained.
Elegant. Debate concluded.
All of the above are true, and none of the above are true.
Do you understand?
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Asshatting aside, what you just wrote is more a commentary on how the schools are just creating a culture that brainwashes everyone into going to college.
This is by design.
MORE SCHOOL IS MORE DEBT.
Nothing to do with common core and everything to do with creating more debt.
the number of remedial courses show just how much a failure is BigGovEd.
You made it to college and still haven't found x.
"What people are worried about is white washing history."
That's the purpose of Google. They renamed themselves Alphabet as they will be the Kommon Kore of all future online learning. Textbooks will be limited to the chldren of the 1%. Even Steve Jobs banned iPads from his own kids. He knew what they are. Tools of distraction that change the brains of those who use them too often.
Go Away! Baitin!
Seriously though, I agree 100%. The public schools here thought it was a great idea to issue every kid from grades 6-12 with mac book air, complete witha built in facebook account. I wonder what kind of kickbacks were paid to the county school admin?
An acquaintance teaches HS Spanish here in the only 'diverse' HS in the county. He said the biggest change from getting the laptops was that the dindus quit fighting so much. Went from 5 fights per day to about 1 per week. He also noted that the 'kids' in his class mostly use their macbooks for skype, surfing, and youtube during the school day. The school IT people have tried to block some (they are the best IT people anywhere LOL) but kids have worked around it. He also said that when a dindu child doesn't do its work, and he tries to give it an F, the parent shows up accusing of racism and tries to get him fired. And this guy is half Asian half white, the product of a liberal teacher college. He thinks he would have been gone long ago if he'd not been half Asian (and thereby somewhat immune to accusations of racism by blacks).
He's slowly morphing into a conservative. I wonder why? I haven't totally given up on him yet.
My kids go to the only school in the county that doesn't issue macbooks(and so do my teacher friend's by the way). They use computers running Windows in a lab at school -- to learn MS Office and basic programming (HTML, and other languages for the advanced kids).
The rest of the time they have to use notecards, pencils, and paper. This school is one of the best in the state in terms of SAT/ACT scores. And this is not a prosperous county filled with children of college educated parents with high incomes either.
IMO there's somethingto be said for the old fashioned way, and it shows when these kids educated that way can beat out kids from better areas beign taught with the new common core/tablet/computer screen in hand constantly method.
They call this school a 'classical academy' and it doesn't hire unionized teachers. What's funny is that teachers from other schools are queued up to get a job there -- a waiting list. They can't wait to get out of the macbook common core hellholes to a school with kids who's parents still give a shit and who still adheres to old fashioned values (as much as possible) -- they even display the Constitution on the Wall and have muals around the school with famous Founding Father quotes. THAT is unusual in this day and age.
Communist core is working EXACTLY as designed. And it is being instituted by the products of liberal education colleges.
When I was in college some 25 years ago, .edu major was considered the easiest by far. And I noticed that other than Pscyh, that .edu had the highest per capita amount of hot chicks, especially blondes. Coincidence? I think not.
I haven't used google in quite a few years(save for youtube... grrr).
If you would like a pretty good google alternative I would suggest duckduckgo.
URL: http://www.duckduckgo.com
Tag Line: "The search engine that doesn't track you."
I would suggest duckduckgo...
I hate the thought of google too and have been trying to use duckduck for quite a while but the initial search results to choose from seem to be geared more for web designers instead of users.
Not that that's a bad thing, but sometimes I just want the info and don't necessarily want to see all the levers the guy behind the curtain's pulling.
jmo.
Buttertooth, you've evidentially, had way too much Kool-Aid....go back to your regularly scheduled programming.
Then you love to fuck your inbred whore daughter up the ass and cum in her mouth
If she's white, she'll think its manna from heaven if you tell her that youre a nigger and if she won't let you cum in her mouth, she's a raycisssss.
If it's so,easy, why do you have to help,her every night?
And what do you have to report about common core history?
His-to-what?
With few exceptions, I found school boring and stupid until late undergrad in chemical engineering. At that point we finally had some good challenges. Grad school and my first job was truly liberating: Instead of having to memorize unrelated concepts, you had a coherent goal, and the calculus, the chemistry, the programming, etc. were things you learned because you actually needed them.
I don't think Common Core is going to bring the necessary change. I've read some of the docs and see the pretty language about science, but more likely, we're still going to see authoritative teachers. Teachers like an angry atheist/feminist I saw teaching HS biology, who was constantly shouting "You don't think critically!" to every disagreement. My goodness, that and the teacher who would slam doors in kid's faces.
With few exceptions, I found school boring and stupid until late undergrad in chemical engineering...
The argumants for CC seem to be around math and those against are directed to the implementing of mathmatic thinking applied to social behavior. You evidently are one who gains understanding through modular concepts while dismissing as irrelevent other approaches to understanding.
Memorizing "unrelated" concepts may seem a waste of energy at the time of memorization, but that's like saying there is no need to fill your gas tank completely up when you pull into the gas station. Personally speaking, truth is truth and regardless of where one finds it, it will contain value. If we fail to expose ourselves and our children to truth and the proper use of the tools needed to discover truth, we will send them out with insufficient fuel for their journey.
jmo.
Your assessment is the impression I have come to have after researching Common Core. Before, only the gifted kids were getting math presented the way it is in Common Core, but that doesn't mean that all kids can't benefit from an approach that stretches their critical thinking skills. The program is new and has a learning curve for both teachers and students. Its obvious to me that the criticism here comes from people who have not actually looked at the program. It actually DOES help develop critical thinking skills, which is something that has been sorely lacking in the US educational system up until it was recently introduced with Common Core. The curriculum is more difficult,and too many parents, who never developed critical thinking skills themselves, criticize it because it is not the way they were taught.
For those clueless people out there who don't know anything about Common Core other than the complaints they've heard from pundits, here are examples of the way math is taught in Common Core vs. the old way:
http://excelined.org/common-core-toolkit/old-standards-v-common-core-a-s...
If only the Republicans had the backbone of this Chinese/American mother .... she is the kind of immigrant that .... uh .... who strengthens America !
GOProgs are beyond contempt. Their behavior since November 2014 was the final straw for me.
China's PLA has high hopes and aspirations...
http://www.popularmechanics.com/military/a17220/china-video-attack-us/
2 + 2 = 5
Unemployment is 5%.
Just follow Eric's link. Look for "how to catch a spoofer." (video clip)
https://twitter.com/nanexllc?lang=en
Paul Krugman must be giving himself autofellatio next to Alan Greenspan.
Watch this. Understand long term goal. I disagree with plan.
BUILDING THE MACHINE - The Common Core Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjxBClx01jc
Common Core is illegal in Texas but elements of it keep sneaking in under different names.
A former Lt Governor's son, Thomas Ratliff, is a professional lobbyist in Austin. One of his clients, Microsoft, gave him a substantial increase when he landed a spot on the State Board of Education. It is illegal for for a lobbyist to be on the SBOE. He refuses to resign and there is no mechanism for impeaching him. A couple of years ago, an education activist tried to get him booted. He went after her through a complaint with the Texas Ethics Commission (no kidding). The complaint was spurious and was dismissed, but this incident shows how some of the education goons play.
But this absolutely takes the cake:
http://eagnews.org/south-dakota-drops-teaching-high-schoolers-about-amer...
Your source is a very important lookout .
Only four states opposed. See map. Common Core Curriculum - A Trojan Horse for Education Reform
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxYfimNeCtY
I heard a piece about Jeb's financial windfall investment with a book publisher and CC. Figures. I haven't original sourced it yet. So much to always track down.
I'll bet Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao are somewhere, laughing their asses off at what the USSA has become....
Right along w/ Papa Doc Barack, Bernie Sanders, and Jeb Bush to name just three out of literally thousands of elected Pigs of the State, and millions of their bureaucratic enforcers.
What the USSA has become is largely just skin deep.
When you peel away the filthy, rotten outer layers, there are still plenty of red-blooded Americans willing and able to resist the beast.
Those panty-waist commie fags you mentioned could not hold a candle to many *real* Americans who were their contemporaries.
Yes, but once you get a hold of people's kids, the calculus changes. Something needs to happen soon before our rich heritage and history is totally lost.
If you have school age children, get them out of public school and into a good private school as fast as you can. It is an investment you will never regret.
It's been shown home schooled kids score higher on tests than students educated in public schools. Makes sense to me. Now ask yourself why big brother is against that.
The few studies that have compared home schooled kids to students educated in public schools relied on voluntary response from homeschool participants to a prominant home school advocacy association. Lack of random samples resulted in comparing kids from families who were more white, religious, more married, better educated and wealthier than the national averages. It says nothing about how this highly selective group would have performed in public schools, or against a subset of public school students with similar demographics.
We discussed Common Core in my Civics class. My suggestion is that corporations begin teaching students in gradeschool and actually take over the educational system at an early level. Currently they offer some medical programs and technology programs to highschool students. Since the United States has given its government over to the control of banks and in effect annihilated the Federal Government of the United States of America we should do what is possible with corporations as the new form of NWO government. It could again become competitive as FRAUD begins to fail and corporations begin struggling against one another (even though ownership is mostly the same individuals and families). Corporations would have the unique ability to train people for grainular and specific disciplines that make their products and services more effective. The difficulty that I see is that, with the more knowledge that comes over the horizon of the unknown, the fewer people that there are specialized enough to know how to use it.
China will continue to buy bonds & UST as long as we change our culture. This will be every's political servants nightmare. Expect more hacking emails to expose the softcell terrorist working on behave of your taxpayers monies.
Common Core is funded by Bill Gates. The man hates people, thinks he's intellectually superior, and uses the money he's earned from the sheeple to keep them ignorant.
I'd rather Gates spend his time fixing his shitty operating system.
Success happened to Bill because he made a few smart moves. Then it all went to his head. Microsoft is now totally onboard with the Statism concept. Windows 10 computers should include the old Soviet hammer and sickle decal for your window.
I have a friend who is a project manager and got sucked into the MIC via Lockheed and is subcontracted out to M$.
He says that Microsoft is well on its way to implementing the chips in new computers that will prevent people from distributing programs that are not 'verified by Microsoft' much like the apple app store.
If you want a clear picture of what your future is going to look like I suggest watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwNIv5kvR3A
There's a OS in the workings. Don't ask. It's going to shit on Bill Gates efforts. Hint, when you buy a new computer, you strip and gut the bloated software garbage. Then install a new operating system. MicroShite will not be able to access verification checks. It's a very unique firewall.
A former Cuban refugee was asked what it was like living in Cuba under Castro.
She said:
When I was 6 years old, in the first grade, everyday the teacher would tell us to put our heads down on the desk and close our eyes and then to pray to God for some candy and we would all do this. After a minute or two she would tell us to open our eyes and to sit up. And there would be no candy.
Then, she would tell us to put our heads back down on the desk and close our eyes again, but this time she would tell us to praise Fidel Castro and to thank him and to ask him for some candy. After another mnute or two the teacher would tell us to open our eyes and lift up our heads again but this time there would be a piece of candy on each of our desks.
And that is what it was like living in Cuba under Fidel Castro and why I am thankful to be in America.
That teacher taught her a valuable lessson but she wa too stupid to understand it
There is no INVISIBLE GUY IN THE SKY.
failed to teach that the too visible guy lording over their country is even more a fraud..
You mean like Obomber, the Bushes, the Clintons and all Presidents before them?
Even YOU didn't get the lesson the teacher was trying to convey.
There is ALWAYS someone who gives you something, whether its a job, an opportunity to better yourself.
EVeryone serves SOMEONE, A business owner serves his customers. without customers he has no business.
etc etc etc.
And when the the time comes, as it does for all of us, He won't know you.
He will deny your existence as well.....
96% of the entire known Universe is invisible including you until you magically showed up at ZH with a nasty case of ADD.
Atheism is superstition but it fits you. Even Darwin doesn't agree with you. It's already been disproven by other militant atheist scientists with Nobel prizes who had to admit there is something else 'miraculous' at play and that 'external intervention was required' (their words). Prisons are full of atheists and you're welcome to join them if it woud make you feel more comfortable.
'''And that is what it was like living in Cuba under Fidel Castro and why I am thankful to be in America.''
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oddly enough the immigrants I encounter here say the same thing about living here. A chance to work, earn a good living. and even start businesses. In fact, we have more small businesses per capita here than in the USA.
everything is smaller in Europe
Yes, but our infrastructure is 21 st century while yours is archaic and decrepit.
''Coming from Northern Europe back to the USA is like leaving the Jetsons and returning to the Flintstones'' - NYT reporter i 2011.
My salary is much larger in Europe.
but taxed more
America thinks its a large country. It only has 3 time zones. Russia has 9 times zones.
don't forget Alaska and Hawaii
Except my bank account which is much larger than when I lived in the USA. Debt free, big home paid off.
I have the same situation here, but my house is probably bigger with lower utility costs
I have a feeling that if she floated to your house she'd try to swim back.
Or maybe take some fucking responsibility and educate your children YOURSELF. *gasp* Be a lazy fucking sack of shit and let the State raise your kids and don't be surprised when they're ignorant brainwashed losers. From the moment my son was old enough to hear, I started teaching him myself....and I mean teaching him to resist and think for himself. Question everything, up to and including me. The day he tells me to my face I'm full of shit will be the proudest day of my life. I relish the day he brings home one of these Statist propaganda textbooks so we can both laugh at it together.
I agree with you. Teaching a child to question everything is imperative.
Especially when it comes to choosing (or not choosing) a religion.
One of the most fucked up things that parents do is teach them that there is some guy in the sky and they were ''born sinful''
Ask any psychoanalyst , they will tell you that notion has fucked up many a young mind FOR LIFE.
My father used to chew me out when I fucked up. He would yell ''Use your brain''.
He also said ''what goes around comes around''.
He was Buddhist and didn't even know it.
He also told me about the difference between INDUCTIVE and DEDUCTIVE reasoning and told me it was up to me to figure out which was better.
He also said ''Remember this, everyone on this planet, whether Joe Sixpack or the Pope or the Kng or Queen or President, all take a shit just like you and I do.''
"All the arguments have a theme that is made manifest in a series of questions: What is freedom? What are its limits? What is a human being? What are the obligations of citizenship? What is meant by democracy? And so on. Happily, Americans are neither the only nor the first people to argue these questions, which means we have found answers, and may continue to find them, in the analects of Confucius, the commandments of Moses, the dialogues of Plato, the aphorisms of Jesus, the instructions of the Koran, the speeches of Milton, the plays of Shakespeare, the essays of Voltaire, the prophecies of Hegel, the manifestos of Marx, the sermons of Martin Luther King, Jr., and any other source where such questions have been seriously addressed. But which ones are the right answers? We don’t know. There’s the rub, and the beauty and the value of the story. So we argue and experiment and complain, and grieve, and rejoice, and argue some more, without end. Which means that in this story we need conceal nothing from ourselves; no shame need endure forever; no accomplishment merits excessive pride. All is fluid and subject to change, to better arguments, to the results of future experiments.
This, it seems to me, is a fine and noble story to offer as a reason for schooling: to provide our youth with the knowledge and will to participate in the great [American] experiment; to teach them how to argue, and to help them discover what questions are worth arguing about; and, of course, to make sure they know what happens when arguments cease. No one is excluded from the story. Every group has made good arguments, and bad ones. All points of view are admissible. The only thing we have to fear is that someone will insist on putting in an exclamation point when we are not yet finished. Like in Florida [they made it obligatory for schools to teach that America is superior to all other countries]. "
- Neil Postman, The End of Education (Redefining the Value of School), 1996
The notion that America is superiour to all other countries has been blown out of the water many times simply by 'actual proof' that its false.
Of course the majority of Americans have never been anywhere else and those that have , have a tendency to tell other people that America is the best. (even though they can show no proof). Then they wonder why people hate Americans.
The notion that America is superiour to all other countries has been blown out of the water many times simply by 'actual proof' that its false.
Of course the majority of Americans have never been anywhere else and those that have , have a tendency to tell other people that America is the best. (even though they can show no proof). Then they wonder why people hate Americans.
USSA Common Core: Dumb Goyim Are Pliable Goyim
Before the criticisms of the educational system and there is plenty of reasons to criticize, one must ask the basic question. What is the true purpose of the educational system everywhere.
Here are some answers.
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/03/19/education-blessings-o...
http://albainternazionale.blogspot.it/2015/09/il-terrore-della-nato-ades...
Terror NATO in to Asia ...
The globalists like fascist government because the people-control mechanisms are already in place and they don't have to fight a bunch of libertarian hard heads trying to maintain their rights.
As historian Eustace Mullins pointed out, Wall St globalist zionists funded russian and chinese communist takeovers, but the people didn't like it because it was oppressive.
We were told these people embraced communism when in fact as usual the opposite was true and it was imposed on them by their Wall St financiers through their puppet masters Stalin and Mao.
Is she one of Jeb's evil Asians with an anchor baby?
Common core is about data collection, pure and simple. The added value of being able to indoctrinate liberalism and destroy any critical thinking skills is just a bonus. B Gates needs his data and he pays dearly in the form of political donations to make sure it continues. The rewards will be immense once everyone from pre k is properly categorized. One of the most telling moments I've ever seen in presidential politics is Jeb telling his audience in Spanish that Trump is no conservative. That statement says more the more you think about it.
Common Core does not have to be about data collection. It is actually about helping kids develop critical thinking skills. The data collection/testing component is to feed corporate cronies and may result in the system failing before it has a chance to prove its worth.
I learned a lesson a few years ago. In a span of one week. I went to 3 different stores and tried to pay the bill with more change than was owed so I would get rid of some loose change and either a whole quarter or actually dollar bill.
I kid you not. All 3 basically said the same thing. The register already rang up and it's too hard for them to figure out what I should get back , so please keep my change and don't do that again. I must say. I don't think I have done it since !!!!!
The key is, you withold your money and don't put it down until you are ready. Then you tell them how much you are giving them. Just about every register now accepts the total tendered and calculates the proper change, because, as you said, they can't do it in their brain anymore.
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
First they came for the communists, and everybody applauded and let out a sign of relief.
From the film ''Catch 22'' The scene where the troops asked some old Italian guy ''are you communists or fascist?
His answer ''When the communists are here I am a communist, when the facists are here I am a fascist'.
First, the joos created communism, and no one felt threatened. Then the commies kiled 100 million or so in Russia. And no one cared. Then the commies killed another 100 million or so in China and no one cared. Then the joo new bolshies work day and night to take away the Americans guns so they can kill another 100 million or so. And no one cares.
Yeah, so what?
In ye olde days (back when we had real jobs), young workers would apprentice at a specific job and spend years learning that job. If that job needed math, they learned it. If it did not, then they didn't. After a few years they had a skill.
Today, students are taught politically correct history, are made to read politically correct literature, are forced to learn geography by studying the culture of African tribes and global warming, etc
Back in ye old days. apparently, people weren't encouraged to develop critical thinking skills. So much easier to soak them in propaganda that way.
Charlotte Iserbyt laid this all out years ago in her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America. She was on the inside as it was being implemented and she was aghast at what she was seeing. Legit old broad, big brain. She's worth a listen.
Common Core is an attempt to reverse the dumbing down of America. The testing involved, which disrupts its implementation, will most likely kill the effort before it gets a chance to prove its worth.
Common Core is an attempt to reverse the dumbing down of America.
As soon as I see someone defend the government school monopoly, that tells me they are too dumb to reverse the dumbing down process that has been in play for over a hundred years.
As soon as I see someone attacking Common Core, without separating the standards of CC from the implementation (testing standards, third parties profiting off education, corporations and legislators instead of educators leading the design) issues, that tells me that their education has resulted in them having been "dumbed down" to the point where they haven't developed the critical thinking skills necessary to do a thorough evaluation. Common Core would try to address the problem that you, apparently, can't escape.
For a while I thought common core was a hoax. Found it very hard to believe a human being made this shit up. Now it seems people are really this idiotic. We are doomed.
What do you actually know about Common Core?
I wonder how many people have really looked into Common Core, as opposed to those who make assumptions based on this kind of "story". From my investigations, it looks like Common Core actually is a better model for helping children learn and develop critical thinking skills. It is different from the old models in this respect, and does not teach to the test as much.
The problem is that the tests, developed by corporate reformers who seek to privatize schools to create revenue streams like so many corporate cronies these days, do not serve the system well.
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/27_04/edit274.shtml
From my investigations, it looks like Common Core actually is a better model for helping children learn and develop critical thinking skills.
What does it mean to have "critical thinking skills" when you can't read, write, or count?
Do you know anything about Common Core other than what you've heard from pundits? Here is how the principal of a Florida school describes how Common Core has helped elevate standards:
http://hechingerreport.org/parents-become-supports-of-common-core-when-t...
Do you know anything about Common Core other than what you've heard from pundits?
Does anyone? I still remember the "new math" debackle.
http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/common-core-a-threat-to-catholic-educ...
Looks like common core is right up there with global warming ... and the Earth being the center of the universe.
I repeat:
What is critical thinking when you can't read, write, or count?
One thing that really bugged me when I went to my sons' college graduations. All the education graduates graduated with honors. They had more ropes and scarfs and colors than any of the other students. The poor engineers were pretty much black and white in appearance.
Just an observation.
I looked critically at the Common Core math program, instead of just reading some "old school" educator criticism of it. One of the main reasons Common Core was developed was because the US ranked so low on math scores compared to the rest of the developed world. The "new math" may look like a "debacle" to you, but to any old dog that can learn a few new tricks, it looks like a way to address the problem with the way we have been teaching math in the US:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/27/magazine/why-do-americans-stink-at-mat...
One of the main reasons Common Core was developed was because the US ranked so low on math scores compared to the rest of the developed world.
And when they analyzed the problem they discovered the rest of the developed world were using "new math"?
Bet me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Math
From the link:
These educator geniuses in the Dept of Education and Indoctrination, losing sight of their objective, redouble their efforts.
They view everything as communism. You have to get everybody doing it for it to work so pilot programs are just out of the question.
What's really amazing is how few of these educators can "do the math".
Someday they'll discover, the real difference between the educated kids and the uneducated kids is the parents ... not the curriculum or the money spent per student.
From the Wikipedia link for "New Math":
My own experience with "New Math" was through the enrichment program for gifted students in my school district, where it is still being taught. In 2007, the National Council of Teachers of Mathmatics released "Curriculum Focal Points", a report that identified important standards for each grade level, and which included standard algorithms (old school math) as part of the instruction. upon which Common Core math standards were developed,
Per wikipedia:
The Focal Points were used to help create the Common Core standards. Here is a comparison of The Focal Points with Singapore's Math Syllabus by grade, which demonstrates how the standards intend to bring US curriculum more on a par with International standards (Singapore is #1 in math achievement):http://www.edinformatics.com/math_science/nctm_singapore_math.htm
Unfortunately, most parents are completely illiterate regarding computers and the kind of math that is necessary to develop skills that are valuable in the information age. Luckily, there are some educators that are seeking out ways to transition into new ways of teaching math, despite the resistence from the "old dogs" who can't learn new tricks.
My own experience with "New Math" was through the enrichment program for gifted students in my school district, where it is still being taught.
"gifted students": That comes after "all students".
Everyone learns to work in multiple bases without even thinking about it. For example, a day is base 24. A minute is base 60. A foot is base 12. A dollar is base 4, base 5, base 100, all at the same time.
Normal students don't "think" about it and don't have to. But they better learn it or they're not going to be competitive. They just don't have to be confused and bored about the science behind it.
Some people are gifted in dance. Some in music. Some in drywall. Some in auto mechanics. We don't make "all" students learn to be "gifted" in "all" fields of study.
That's where they screwed up!
There are some things that are absolutely necessary for survival in our social world. They are, at a minimum, reading, writing, and counting. They are "not" buying into government propaganda and indoctrination. When all students can't finish their education with these fundamental skills, they are being cheated and they won't be able to survive.
And it doesn't take 12+ years to acquire these fundamental skills. It talkes less than 1/3 that.
How does this even get introduced into the classrooms? I thought the teacher's union would have fought for the best interest of the children?
Teachers are supportive of the Common Core standards, but take issue with the implementation, including excessive testing and broken teacher evaluations.
http://neatoday.org/2013/10/16/10-things-you-should-know-about-the-commo...
spooz, -- the more that you write the funnier you get.
Yeah, amazing how I was able to develop critical thinking skills that allow me to investigate and decide the merits of an issue outside of this kind of ZH propaganda, considering I was educated in US public schools.
I was able to develop critical thinking skills ... considering I was educated in US public schools.
Obviously your threshold for what constitutes critical thinking skills is very low. Public schools do not attract critical thinkers. No critical thinker of any merit would defend public shools. Common core is nothing but another shade of lipstick.
I would go as far as saying it can't be taught in any formal setting. It's a self learning process.
You give nothing to support your contentions. If that is what you call "critical thinking", I rest my case.
For a ten year old, my daughter has more silver bullion than probably any other kid in Minnesota. I had a lot to do with that. She wants gold now but I told her that she needs to earn gold on her own. She balks. Young woman, I ain't giving you any of my gold...get it? That is common sense.
Why would anyone think that writing a paragraph just to say 2+2=4 is wise. Because they know they can twist that paragraph to 2+2=5.
Everything you need to know about Common Core in a 5 part video series, from the American Principals Project.
Part 1 is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coRNJluF2O4&feature=plcp
This woman sounds like a good republican.
When my kids were in school, the system had stopped teaching phonics and tried some bullshit called sight reading. I had to teach them phonics at home.
Now they're teaching math in some ridiculous manner that only confuses children and leaves them unprepared to do math in the real world. So now we have to teach our children math at home also.
Why are we sending them to school if we're the ones who end up teaching them at home? I can't even imagine what they'll do to the science curriculum.