AlaskaBushPilot
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Common Core is dead. Betsy DeVos gave the official epitaph months ago here:
https://www.myajc.com/blog/get-schooled/betsy-devos-common-core-dead-department-education/cQzYu1G8fauL6KPp41aVgJ/
We fell to 40th in Math on the PISA tests with the help of Common Core. Math was the area receiving the most complaints by parents. This was presaged by the most pertinent member of the math standards committee resigning and doing nationwide campaigning against the common core.
But it is over now. The so-called Every Student Succeeds Act, lol - that's just preciously hilarious political sloganeering. But what it did was snip the tie between federal funding and any national standard, like Common Core.
I'd say the first thing in the way of any kind of reform that matters is self-awareness. Students and parents are carefully kept ignorant of how we're doing vis-a-vis our international competition.
Everyone gets socially promoted. Everyone gets a high school diploma now, just for attending. The special ed kids too. Especially them, in fact. Our whole approach is teaching to the bottom. Where, as this article points out, $7 Billion of extra funding has no effect whatsoever.
In the meantime the Asians know exactly what their international standing is. Just having that awareness invokes a competitive spirit in them. It motivates them.
So by graduation you have the kids from Shanghai four academic years ahead of my local school.
The kids don't know any better than to judge themselves by their peers when adults conceal the rest of the world from them. So it is quite a shock to graduate high school and find yourself looking like a moron compared to a dirt-poor Vietnamese kid who attended a thatch hut for school.
Competition energizes people. It gives them purpose. It raises their performance. The reason we squealch the competitive spirit is this misguided idea it is unfair to stupider people.
No it isn't. It's unfair to everyone else, that they are thrown unprepared into a world of vastly higher competition. All that extra money and attention to the lowest IQ cohort was to no effect, and the people with brains were held back.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
https://www.myajc.com/blog/get-schooled/betsy-devos-common-core-dead-department-education/cQzYu1G8fauL6KPp41aVgJ/
We fell to 40th in Math on the PISA tests with the help of Common Core. Math was the area receiving the most complaints by parents. This was presaged by the most pertinent member of the math standards committee resigning and doing nationwide campaigning against the common core.
But it is over now. The so-called Every Student Succeeds Act, lol - that's just preciously hilarious political sloganeering. But what it did was snip the tie between federal funding and any national standard, like Common Core.
I'd say the first thing in the way of any kind of reform that matters is self-awareness. Students and parents are carefully kept ignorant of how we're doing vis-a-vis our international competition.
Everyone gets socially promoted. Everyone gets a high school diploma now, just for attending. The special ed kids too. Especially them, in fact. Our whole approach is teaching to the bottom. Where, as this article points out, $7 Billion of extra funding has no effect whatsoever.
In the meantime the Asians know exactly what their international standing is. Just having that awareness invokes a competitive spirit in them. It motivates them.
So by graduation you have the kids from Shanghai four academic years ahead of my local school.
The kids don't know any better than to judge themselves by their peers when adults conceal the rest of the world from them. So it is quite a shock to graduate high school and find yourself looking like a moron compared to a dirt-poor Vietnamese kid who attended a thatch hut for school.
Competition energizes people. It gives them purpose. It raises their performance. The reason we squealch the competitive spirit is this misguided idea it is unfair to stupider people.
No it isn't. It's unfair to everyone else, that they are thrown unprepared into a world of vastly higher competition. All that extra money and attention to the lowest IQ cohort was to no effect, and the people with brains were held back.
Admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
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