No wonder the US is headed for trouble.

[crow]

'Contrary to what most have been told and brainwashed to think, CC is not a curriculum. Nor is it a set of instructional methods. CC is nothing more than a set of minimal standards that any child at a certain grade level should know, no matter where he lives. It is the state/local district prerogative to select curricula to introduce subject matter that leads the student to the standard. And it is the local district that develops instructional strategies to teach the curricula. It is in no way an attempt to take control away from state and local districts. The districts are free to add to the standards as they see fit.

I am a local control guy through and through. And I have studied CC at length and depth and helped develop my districts methods and curricula to teach them. There is absolutely not one thing that I object to in the standards. Too many politicians have seized the conversation surrounding CC and have thoroughly misled the American people. It is my professional and personal belief that CC is the best chance we have had in a while to make sure all children have a core set of knowledge across the country. If states would get off their asses and get the teachers what they need to teach them and if politicians would get out of education and let teachers alone long enough to get something done without jumping onto another bandwagon, CC has a great deal of potential for good.

Do yourself a favor...quit believing what every damn politician says about education and listen to what educators say about education. You could take what the entire state legislature knows about education and you couldn't fill a thimble.

Time for a drink!

[peewee]

. It is in no way an attempt to take control away from state and local districts. The districts are free to add to the standards as they see fit.

I am a local control guy through and through. And I have studied CC at length and depth and helped develop my districts methods and curricula to teach them. There is absolutely not one thing that I object to in the standards. Too many politicians have seized the conversation surrounding CC and have thoroughly misled the American people. It is my professional and personal belief that CC is the best chance we have had in a while to make sure all children have a core set of knowledge across the country. If states would get off their asses and get the teachers what they need to teach them and if politicians would get out of education and let teachers alone long enough to get something done without jumping onto another bandwagon, CC has a great deal of potential for good.

Do yourself a favor...quit believing what every damn politician says about education and listen to what educators say about education. You could take what the entire state legislature knows about education and you couldn't fill a thimble.

Time for a drink!

Crow that is a false truth. You know as well as I that ACT and SAT standards have and are changing (aligning) to CC standards. Thus in fact they have forced educators to teach this load of crap. Even private institutions in the future will have to teach CC standards if they expect their students to score well on entrance exams. The whole initiative is about control and $$$$$$, and lots of it. CC was introduced to states through a grant program named Race to the Top. If your state took the $$$ you agreed to implement CC standards. I talk to educators every freaking day and they want to throw in the towel. For the most part have their hands tied. Crow you belittle any politician that speaks out about CC but in reality it is their job if they see something they disagree with. Why would 1 man who admits he grew up with a liberal background (Father was the head of Planned Parenthood) invest 5.3 Billion into the US educational system to implement CC.



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Now let me sip on my water for a while, thats all I can afford due to all the taxes I have to pay.

[420 racin]

So is all that hoopla about how kids have to do math now BS or is that real...are parents having to spend hours each night to help their kids figure out how to add ten to everything and then subtract it to make it equal ten and blah blah blah..I haven't got any experience in it except what I have been told...by parents not politicians...about how their kids have to do math now. From what i hear, that is the main concern and problem folks have with it...the "new" way kids have to do math.