tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762201600804179432.post3780797722858069092..comments2023-12-15T07:51:27.673-08:00Comments on Betrayed - Why Public Education Is Failing: Common Core research is "just another piece of misleading advocacy"Laurie H. Rogershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18367210923946752695noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762201600804179432.post-13636296975131736982013-06-20T07:56:44.763-07:002013-06-20T07:56:44.763-07:00Quite a bit after the fact, but the one thing I no...Quite a bit after the fact, but the one thing I notice about his state ratings is that VT, NH, and RI all get different ratings, but they all use the NECAP GSE's in math, so... something's weird there.Tom Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577165613934129833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-762201600804179432.post-4716970725072855142012-05-07T15:19:03.948-07:002012-05-07T15:19:03.948-07:00Common Core Curriculum started with bribes to the ...Common Core Curriculum started with bribes to the states, and is being sustained by chicanery. I have a really bad feeling that if this thing is allowed to prevail, American public schools will get EVEN worse. But perhaps I am an alarmist.<br /><br /> For a piece I wrote on the Examiner last week, I asked Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation to give me her up-to-the-minute assessment of where we are:<br /><br /><b>“State leaders are beginning to take a step back and re-examine whether it was wise to cede control over the content taught in local schools to distant national organizations and Washington bureaucrats. Control over standards and assessments is one of the ways in which parents can have a real say in what is taught in their child’s school, and national Common Core standards further remove parents from the education decision-making process. Try knocking on the door of the US Department of Education to get changes in curriculum.</b><br /><br /><b>"And that’s one of the reason’s this push is so ill-advised. Parents will lose control over the content taught in their child’s school, and if mistakes are made with the Common Core national standards, it will be nearly impossible to change. Virginia has been right to be skeptical of the national standards push, and should continue to work to improve the SOLs, not relinquish educational authority to Washington.”</b>Bruce Deitrick Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02881671487606709421noreply@blogger.com