Posted: 8/29/2013 12:44:36 AM EDT
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Just a little thing to get one's blood boiling.
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a quick perusal leaves me unconcerned. common core is a set of minimum standards. if the schools in question actually lower their standards based on common core, then the problem is with the school. the biggest problem in secondary education is reduced expectations and standards. when educational benchmarks are introduced in order to combat this, people want to complain for some reason. every day, i teach the products of america's public schools, and i witness the legacy of the absence of any sort of rigor--these kids should not have been allowed to graduate high school, and yet here they are in my lab. if standardized minimum benchmarks for education are not the way to go, then what is?
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a quick perusal leaves me unconcerned. common core is a set of minimum standards. if the schools in question actually lower their standards based on common core, then the problem is with the school. the biggest problem in secondary education is reduced expectations and standards. when educational benchmarks are introduced in order to combat this, people want to complain for some reason. every day, i teach the products of america's public schools, and i witness the legacy of the absence of any sort of rigor--these kids should not have been allowed to graduate high school, and yet here they are in my lab. if standardized minimum benchmarks for education are not the way to go, then what is? Maximum benchmarks? |