Common Core - JUST SHOOT ME NOW!

[hossenpepper]

The problem with trying to do both though, is the degree of "teaching for the test" that goes on. There just isn't enough time for the teachers to teach both, and the tests are modeled after the new method. So they focus on the new. I think that is counter-productive as well. There has been a loss in creativity and individual thinking with all of the teaching to the test that happens. One of my kids' teachers told me during a conference last year she was actually reprimanded by the principal for not teaching for the test as much as the principal thought the teacher should have been. Not in those exact words, of course, but that was the message. The day to day learning and grades have taken a back seat to each state's, county's, and school district's test scores.

I agree 100%. That is the part of the NCLB Act that should be amended. I think testing should still go on, but as an evaluation of the METHODS, not the students. I think I mentioned it before, it's ironic that the instructors training on the CC methods actually say directly that teaching to the test is the least effective way to boost scores.

 

[hossenpepper]

So let me say, even if CC doesn't work wonders and goes away or it does fix things or some other result, one really good thing it is doing is getting people to talk about and take an interest in our schools again. I will give Bush credit for doing that as well with NCLB. Love it, hate it, mixed bag, at least the conversation is being had.

 

[Bryan James]

 

[swiftdog2.0]

Sooooo frustrating! Sorry kiddo, even though dad has an MBA, I just can’t seem to help you with your 8th grade math... Unfortunately Common Core makes no Common Sense to me.

Who the hell thought this math was better, and mandated it needed be taught to the kids?

Ok, this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever seen. And I've seen a lot of ridiculous things.

What's next, the "Subtraction by osmosis on every other Thursday " method? I guess thousands of years of basic mathematics holds no sway

 

[fljoe0]

In the current edition of Mother Jones, there is an article on Common Core. It is not flattering but it does cover the goals, where it's going off the rails and debunks some of the wild conspiracy theories. I don't know much about this, so I found it interesting.

Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core | Mother Jones

 

[hossenpepper]

In the current edition of Mother Jones, there is an article on Common Core. It is not flattering but it does cover the goals, where it's going off the rails and debunks some of the wild conspiracy theories. I don't know much about this, so I found it interesting.

Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core | Mother Jones

Thanks for the post FLJOE, great article. It said what I've been saying: these ideas are good, but not as the ONLY thing that is taught, and they are exposing the problems and making people focus on this issue.