Posted: 4/3/2013 3:21:00 PM EDT
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What is it? I keep seeing a Facebook friend rail on about it and how it is being used to indoctrinate children to leftist ideology and dumb them down.
Anybody up on what this is all about? I'm trying to dig through the layers of b.s., seems a lot of it is being denounced by Glenn Beck. |
| Rather than state standards it is Federal education standards, adopted by something like 47 out of 50 states. From what I have seen it requires students to actually think to solve problems rather than just regurgitate memorized answers. I consider them an improvement. |
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Rather than state standards it is Federal education standards, adopted by something like 47 out of 50 states. From what I have seen it requires students to actually think to solve problems rather than just regurgitate memorized answers. I consider them an improvement. Why is Glenn Beck railing on about this being leftist indoctrination? Watching GB's videos and I'm not seeing a whole of of specifics, just a lot of "it's bad, bad" kind of rhetoric. |
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Rather than state standards it is Federal education standards, adopted by something like 47 out of 50 states. From what I have seen it requires students to actually think to solve problems rather than just regurgitate memorized answers. I consider them an improvement. This. It also forces teachers and schools to show how their lessons and curriculums are teaching different standards |
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Rather than state standards it is Federal education standards, adopted by something like 47 out of 50 states. From what I have seen it requires students to actually think to solve problems rather than just regurgitate memorized answers. I consider them an improvement. Why is Glenn Beck railing on about this being leftist indoctrination? Watching GB's videos and I'm not seeing a whole of of specifics, just a lot of "it's bad, bad" kind of rhetoric. I watched the Glenn Beck episode, it was way off, and I'm a big GB fan. Here's a link to the common core standards. http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/7 They want the students to understand what they are doing in math, not just be able to solve it (we can always use a calculator for that). For example, 1st graders will understand that 43 is four groups that each contain 10, and 3 individual items. In social science they want high school students to able to present logical arguments and site evidence (crazy right lol!). In English they want students to evaluate the quality of the sources they are using. That lady on GB seemed all about finding the answer. The answer has little value to me as a teacher, I already know the answer. If I can follow my students work, see a logical thought process, see that they understand the higher level concept, I don't mind (too much anyway) that they made a simple arithmetic error. As an employer I'd prefer a worker that can think logically than someone who can solve a calculator problem with zero understanding. |
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Rather than state standards it is Federal education standards, adopted by something like 47 out of 50 states. From what I have seen it requires students to actually think to solve problems rather than just regurgitate memorized answers. I consider them an improvement. Why is Glenn Beck railing on about this being leftist indoctrination? Watching GB's videos and I'm not seeing a whole of of specifics, just a lot of "it's bad, bad" kind of rhetoric. I watched the Glenn Beck episode, it was way off, and I'm a big GB fan. Here's a link to the common core standards. http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/7 They want the students to understand what they are doing in math, not just be able to solve it (we can always use a calculator for that). For example, 1st graders will understand that 43 is four groups that each contain 10, and 3 individual items. In social science they want high school students to able to present logical arguments and site evidence (crazy right lol!). In English they want students to evaluate the quality of the sources they are using. That lady on GB seemed all about finding the answer. The answer has little value to me as a teacher, I already know the answer. If I can follow my students work, see a logical thought process, see that they understand the higher level concept, I don't mind (too much anyway) that they made a simple arithmetic error. As an employer I'd prefer a worker that can think logically than someone who can solve a calculator problem with zero understanding. I would much rather do that then regurgitate answers. maybe I would have given school a better shake had I had that. |
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My wife is a teacher, and we have an 8 year old daughter who is doing the Common Core stuff.
In second grade, she is bringing home math homework using algebra (well, some very watered down basic functions of algebra anyway). And they are doing that regrouping shit. And honestly, it sometimes takes me 5 or 10 minutes to figure out what they want her to do, even though I know the answer already and can show her how to get the answer. It's really throwing my brain through a mind fuck trying to figure it out. I think they need to have some Common Core Saturday school sessions for us parents to try to learn what it is they want our kids to be doing. |
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Rather than state standards it is Federal education standards, adopted by something like 47 out of 50 states. From what I have seen it requires students to actually think to solve problems rather than just regurgitate memorized answers. I consider them an improvement. focus on how one actually solves the problem vs. focus on the answer itself. |