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Is the ‘Common Core’ Initiative Dumbing Down America’s Students?

Mar. 14, 2013 9:09pm Tiffany Gabbay

Last week TheBlaze covered in detail the controversial school curriculum system — one that had students actually design a socialist flag — out of Texas dubbed CSCOPE. Thursday, however, the focus turned to another disturbing initiative in America’s education system: Common Core Standards State Standards.

The Common Core State Standards initiative is, according to its official website, a state-led effort coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), developed “in collaboration with teachers, school administrators, and experts, to provide a clear and consistent framework to prepare our children for college and the workforce.”

The standards are said to be:

Aligned with college and work expectations;
Clear, understandable and consistent;
Include rigorous content and application of knowledge through high-order skills;
Build upon strengths and lessons of current state standards;
Are informed by other top performing countries, so that all students are prepared to succeed in our global economy and society; and
Are evidence-based.

In terms of Common Core, Glenn Beck noted that “if we don’t save education,” so goes the country. He added that parents will need to stand up and challenge their school districts and even change school districts to enact change.

With reportedly nearly every state in the union — adopting similar education programs, Common Core is influenced by successes in other countries and was never drafted with full scrutiny from the public. Beck added that states had a mere two months to commit to the plan during summer months in which state legislators were out of session.

Meanwhile, the federal government is, Beck noted, encouraging states to adopt Common Core. States that adopt common core can, according to Beck, receive waivers of the most demanding provisions in the No Child Left Behind Act.

To glean greater insight and find out more about the key leaders involved in the initiative, like Linda Darling-Hammond who served as an Obama advisor, are, Beck brought on special guests to discuss Common Core in depth.

On the panel was 31-year teaching veteran David Cox, who retired from his Utah school last year because of Common Core and is now teaching at a charter school. He is also a former legislator who helped to create standard levels for his district.

Christal Swasey, another former public school teacher who left the trade because of Common Core. She believes that the initiative is “dumbing down” children by giving “informational texts” instead of training students in the classic literature. She has also brought up the fact that Common Core poses a threat to student and family privacy.

Also on the panel was Emmett McGroarty, an attorney with American Principles Project, an organization that challenges privacy issues with Common Core and Shereena Arrington, a former professor with a background in constitutional law and grassroots activist against who believes that Common Core renders teachers and parents powerless to bureaucrats in Washington.

Collectively, the panel’s objective is to lead the fight against Common Core Standards as they have seen the program’s detrimental effects.

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betterpart
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:36am
The ‘dumbing-down’ can be seen especially in NYC where the corrupt eilitist mayor Michael Bloomberg is in control of the educational system. A lowly progressive-liberal control-freal with absolutely zero in educational experience, he has banned any public school high school student with an average of less than 85 from graduating. First of, not everyone is an 85 student; the second part is that we’re the only city that has a mandated and unrealistically difficult Regents exam in order to graduate; add to that it keeps these kids with less than 85 in the school system. NYC has one of the worst teaching systems in the country yet the ‘mayor’ makes it even more difficult, and deliberately so. You see, each kid in the public school equates to a dollar amount in funding. The more that are forced to stay in school with a less-than-85 average, the more money Bloomberg gets. Not a wonder at all that there are more and more high school drop-outs each year here. The same goes for the city-run colleges and state universities here. Few have a fair and reasonable chance of success.

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- banjarmon
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:44am
  To finish the 8th grade in 1895 the student had to know these things!!
  http://www.barefootsworld.net/1895finalexam.html
  
  Now How dumb are our kids??
  
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- Miami
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:32am
  Yet another of the Marxist infiltration and subversion of the western way of life
  http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/yuri-bezmenov-ex-kgb-psychological-warfare-techniques-subversion-control-of-western-society/question-1364751/
  
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- garyg1
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:44pm
  “Dumbing Down”? I didn’t think American students could get any dumber.
  
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- Freelyn
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:58pm
  Glenn just like many on the Right are actually wrong when it comes to teachers nationwide. They don’t seem to realize that the majority of teachers still believe in America but are being held silent by the educational establishment. Speak out and be punished is a common theme. Many, many teachers in the area where I live are opposed to the implementation of Race to the Top and the extra testing of No Child Left Behind.
  
  Glenn seems to think that the Unions actually speak for their teacher members. They don’t and in many States the teachers are forced to be members and again to speak out against the Union is to be branded and ostracized. Please Glenn there are many teachers out there who would gladly speak out against these new initiatives but can’t. Please don’t lump all teachers together, it’s no better then when Leftists do it with gun owners by equating them with a bunch of dumb hicks.
  
  Since its founding in the 70s the Department of Education has done nothing but waste money and damage education in this Country.
  
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- Dougsopinion
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 6:47pm
  Here it is!
  <iframe width="640" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/Kc1oW2Ka8b0?
  
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- Ray2447
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:55pm
  Worse than “dumbing down,” our nations students are not being taught how to think, but they are being indoctrinated in what to think by Marxist public educators in our taxpayer funded: schools, colleges, and universities as shown in “Marxist Valley College” at Youtube. http://tinyurl.com/44btbq8
  
  Do a Bing search for a .pdf report from The National Association of Scholars, called “A Crisis in Competence, The Corrupting Effect of Political Activism in the University of California” April, 2012.
  
  “An astounding proportion of students are progressing through higher education today without measurable gains in general skills” is the anguished conclusion of a respected national study, entitled appropriately Academically Adrift.2″
  
  and
  
  “This report is concerned with the corruption of the University of California by activist politics, a condition which, as we shall show, sharply lowers the quality of academic teaching, analysis, and research, and results in exactly the troubling deficiencies that are being found in the studies to which we have referred.4″
  
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- PATTY HENRY
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 4:55am
  LISTEN to GLENN on this one. HE is 1000% correct. GET INVOLVED. GET up to date on this. This is what Cass Sunstein has been doing since he slipped out the back door of the White House. PEOPLE.
  THIS IS SERIOUS. Watch GLENN BECK today (RADIO and his 5 PM show) Please learn everything you can about this Most devastating slams against our freedom since that dope in the WH passed the Obamacare… which is just a joke. 85% of the people already had good Health Ins. That left about 40 K with a need, that’s a lot but half of those were illegals; then 1/4 of those were kids who have accidental health coverage on their auto policies; and 1/4 really need help. We should have helped that 1/4; gone after the horrific pharmaceutical over charges; the FRAUD, FRAUD, FRAUD and those creeps who are here illegally and billing Medicare for faux treatments….but oh, no, that kid in the WH who has no class, no honor, no Patriotism and everything pumped into his pin head from every relative he knew who all were Communists…that kid had to have his way. IF America survives he will be the WORST President ever. BUT THIS??? THIS EDUCATIONAL THREAT? WE need to stop this NOW.
  
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- goofey
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 6:23am
  Betterpart: Are you among the students who didn’t graduate because your average was below 85%? Because you can’t spel. Not only that, but you can’t get your facts straight either. A student needs an average of 85% to qualify for a scholarship, not to graduate. I was an avid Beck supporter, but some of the stuff I see on the Blaze and comments by Blaze supporters is just plain nuts.
  
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Obama_In_PeePee_By_Zee_Arteeest_Beck
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:47am
“Is the ‘Common Core’ Initiative Dumbing Down America’s Students?”

From the “hate American Liberty” Progressives(communists) crowd? You know it! THEY are in control now. To save America, YOU must be the hero:

“America’s DESTRUCTION By TRAITORS In GOVERNMENT! YOU Must Be The Hero!! Glenn Beck’s Plan Of Action”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsgYN4lDNQY

“Step two. Please get your children out of the public education system. It has happened before. And if you can find a copy of this book, I’d recommend it. This was written in 1945 after the war. It’s called ‘Hitler’s Professors’. It was orchestrated by the university systems and that’s what’s happening now. Our children, we’re losing them.”

“If you’ve subscribed to us, thank you. If you haven’t, please consider it. Go to http://www.theblaze.com/tv/ and if you have subscribed, please subscribe for a friend or get one to subscribe. … I had a five year plan. I believe we need to do it in one, now. … We have to have a presence to keep our youth. We have to stay online. And we have to stay on cable news, and get more cable operators to pick us up in time.”

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- justsayin456
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:30am
  Good luck.
  
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aplingtjayonia
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:32am
Is this a flaw in my perception or does it seem that over the last 20 years, in quite a number of smaller communities in the heartland a few new families move in and shortly therafter, become very politically active in the community. They move in on city hall and the schools and, once they have majority power, they proceed to bankrupt the city, explode the crime rate, demand more money to fix these ‘problems of demographics’, or whatever other bs reason they come up with. Is it just me, or is this a huge avenue the progressives use to ease us into a communist dictatorship?

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- FeliciaJewel
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:49am
  I would have to say, I believe your right.
  
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- mkw22
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:41pm
  This has happened in Arizona…I’ve lived here my whole life (45 years) and used to be a very conservative state…then people started realizing that we have great weather (minus about 3-4 HOT months), people didn’t bother you (esp. if you were an athlete, actor, etc) and it’s just a great state with a variety of landscapes to enjoy. So people from Chicago, NY, etc. moved in, and now today it’s turning into a purple state. I HATE IT! I won’t move, I love it here, but you hit it on the head. They come here because of what they hope to have, then change everything to what they left behind (kind of like the illegale aliens that come here…)
  
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- freedom_gurl35
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:07pm
  This happened to North Carolina, too. This state has turned purple because of all the New Yorkers, Floridian retirees, and other Northeasterners who have moved here because of “the weather” and “the mountains”. Now we’re subjected to their Marxist thinking and it makes me nuts.
  
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- jowettusmc
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 3:45pm
  I have seen this in action, too. I know exactly what you mean. Scary.
  
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heidihoneighbor
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:26am
kkids being schooled in public schools today do not stand a chance at life after high school or college. First of all public school has turned into nothing more than fantasy reality and a place for parents to dump their kids for the day.
Taxpayers have become the piggy bank for excessive extra curricular activities and are expected to meet unrealistic demands.
The whole system thanks much in part to the liberal agenda and thoughtless parenting has become a waste of time and an excessive burden on society.

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midnightvelvet
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:24am
I subbed for seven years, and I can say each year the kids seemed to get worse and worse. It was actually noticable how dumbed down they were getting in that short of a time.

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- NoSleeper
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:41am
  With the mandated standardized tests and Federal oversight (among other reasons), schools have deteriorated to the point where they ‘teach the test’ and nothing more, especially not the concepts behind the test questions which would fuel understanding and abstract thinking.
  
  My wife and I, who volunteered at the schools and were involved with lessons and homework, saw the sorry state of affairs and assigned additional work for our kids at home. In high school, our children were in the AP and dual enrollment (high school/college) classes and were still bored…passed the graduation ‘test’ as freshmen and got to stay home when the testing took place in subsequent years.
  
  The sorry thing is we tried to have our children take the GED and get out early and go to the local college, but the state did not allow it…said overachievement and the resulting boredom were not ‘valid’ reasons, so they were not allowed to take the test. In the end, I believe it was all about funding received per child.
  
  I used to be an advocate of public schools, but no longer; I do not believe it is fixable. Many parents have taken to Home and Charter schools which should serve as a national model. Close the public schools and privatize education…less government control, more individual responsibility.
  
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carbonfootprints
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:03am
As you read through these standards you begin to realize it all about what employers want. Not a word on innovation, entrepreneurship, etc. They are trying to raise a generation of automatons that just do as they’re told. Not that there is anything wrong with being a good employee…

There is a group in Idaho fighting this called Idahoans for Local Education.

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mccormickcat
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:56am
Common core is being adopted in Catholic Schools? What now? Catholic Schools always had a higher standard than public schools. besides home schooling what choice does full time working parents have really? Where has our freedom of choice gone for our children? I certainly don’t have an answer?

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- Hotconchick
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:43am
  Not in my kids Catholic school it isn’t.
  
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- Hotconchick
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:46am
  Not in our school it isn’t- they do better than that.
  
  http://sms.stmarybg.org/perspective-students/curriculum
  
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- pemomofseven
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:21am
  CAT, unfortunately when Catholic schools started taking money from states, they lost freedom to teach from the books of their choosing. I can still remember when I was in 2nd grade seein all our Catholic Faith and Freedom readers thrown in the dumpster. My mom went dumpster diving and saved a few! They were replaced with secular Dick and Jane. Look in your area for NAPCIS – National Association of Private Catholic and Independant Schools. They are funded privately and are able to use books of their choosing. My children are getting a fantastic private “classical” education. It was an anwser to not being able to home school our children.
  
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- mccormickcat
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:52pm
  Before you say, Not my Catholic School you better know for sure, Chicago and Dallas archdiocese’s are using common core….its scary…if your school participates in federal funding it will most like adopt Common Core….let your local archdiocese know this is not acceptable. Lets save our Catholic schools.
  
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Nabuquduriuzhur
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:36am
The key break in our schools was in the mid 1990s, when the education bachelor’s degree was abandoned by most states in favor of a party degree plus one year of actual study. Because of that, most teachers today spend four years taking art or sociology or “women’s studies”, spend most of the time they should be in class partying, drinking, fornicating, etc. (party degrees are called that for a reason), they graduate with one math or one science sequence, usually no history, geography, nor any other non-humanities classes to speak of, and then somehow they are to teach kids. Most of the “teachers” graduating from the university I earned my masters from in the late 1990s knew less math, science, history, etc., than my age was required to know when we graduated high school.

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Prosoldier
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:29am
I know by posting this, the first thoughts out of some peoples’ minds will be, “Here we go! Break out the tinfoil hats!” but the information can be verified.
As part of the global UN Agenda 21, UNESCO has already begun the “United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development”. From the Teachers Manual associated with this, under the section titled Influencing Our Children it lists:
• Facts are only manmade
• Eliminating disagreement
• Must rely on experts
• Only OK to question certain ideas
This manual has been approved by the Department of Education for use in our schools. Lesson plans are frequently derived from this manual based on local schools’ and states’ wishes and standards. Part of this curriculum is Common Core containing elements of Connected Math and other standardized lessons.

Getting to Know Connected Mathematics
“Because the curriculum does not emphasize arithmetic computation done by hand, some CMP students may not do as well on tests assessing computational skills. We believe such a trade-off in favor of CMP is very much to the student’s advantage in the world of work.” –P.84, Teacher’s Manual
“They learn that mathematics is man-made, that it is arbitrary, and good solutions are arrived at by consensus among those who are experts.” — p. 17, Standard 3

Education for Sustainable Development Tool Kit – Rosalyn McKeown Ph.D.

“Education is an essential tool for achieving susta

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- Prosoldier
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:33am
  Continued:
  “Generally, more highly educated people, who have higher incomes, consume more resources than poorly educated people, who tend to have lower incomes. In this case, more education increases the threat to sustainability.” –ESD Toolkit, Version 2.0
  
  Here, Dr. McKeown is saying that if we have a great number of highly educated people running around on the planet, they will consume even more natural resources than uneducated people, so we need to limit the amount and content of what the children learn.
  
  Further, from the Congressional Record of the 88th US Congress in 1963, in pages A-34 & A-35 is a list of 45 goals from the American Communist Party. Here are a couple:
  17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for Socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
  41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents. (We suddenly have a HUGE push for Headstart and Preschool)
  
  Feel free to look up any of this information. What we’re experiencing in our public school system is beyond just our government. There are larger purposes behind all this.
  
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- Nabuquduriuzhur
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:38am
  Why would we “break out the tinfoil hats?
  
  Anyone following education can observe much of what you are talking about, just from the news articles on what is being taught and what is not being taught.
  
  It’s a sad state of affairs when the Socialist lobby of the UN wants to brainwash.
  
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- Prosoldier
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:39am
  Last word got cut off…”sustainability”
  
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- paxcat
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:16pm
  This post is absolutely correct. Slipping and sliding toward a one world gov’t where everyone does exactly as the elite gov’t officials prescribe!
  
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BamaTeacher
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:29am
Dumbing down? Not in our state. Maybe our standards were just really easy before, but adding the CC standards have definitely made our courses of study more rigorous. Thankfully, the anti-Common Core bill died yesterday in my state. We are in our 2nd year of implementation. Having watched the video, I see there are valid concerns for the states doing those things. That’s not the case in my state and I’m guessing others as well. We did not de-emphasize lit AT ALL. We have complete control of curriculum, delivery of instruction, and we are choosing our own assessments. No data being sent.

As for the panel featured, they are not educators. It’s hard to take their criticism of the math seriously. I walked into a third grade classroom last week doing math. It was absolutely amazing to watch how well they understood the concepts. The school said they had already made great gains in math, thanks in part to the CCRS standards and curriculum (that we chose with parent input, by the way).

All that being said, every state may be implementing the standards differently. We’ve had national standards long before CC, and our courses of study have always aligned with them. This really isn’t new. For states that aren’t Race to the Top states, we have a lot more freedom to do what we want with the standards.

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- Blaze_Comment
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:09am
  Certainly
  
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- VRW Conspirator
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:20am
  Seriously? You claim to be a teacher? Elementary obviously if you were in a third grade class observing their math. Have you ever worked on a curriculum adoption? Have you ever reviewed a textbook for content?
  I don’t know how many years you have supposedly been a teacher but I am in my 14th year of high school math and science. My father was in high school math for 35 years. We both agree, as do every teacher in both fields I have spoken to in two states and 6 districts, students today are 2 years or more behind where they should be when they get to high school in critical thinking, application skills, logical reasoning, and computational skills.
  My son is in fourth grade and they are not even learning things I did in 3rd. The way they are teaching math is absurd. It is all about the test. The skills are remedial at best and not reinforced from unit to unit or day to day. I can explain to my children in terms of long division and algebra and they understand and remember. Their teachers want them to do things “mentally” but have never shown them the basics or work needed to reason out the problem.
  Students come to me in 9-12th and can’t do basic geometry or pre-algebra concepts without a calculator or formula sheet or step by step teacher guidance. You have to pull them through the problem even at the “honors” level. Teachers say it all he time in meetings “we have dumbed down the work”. Sad you think this is adequate.
  
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- Torimom
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 8:45am
  Oh please, BamaTeacher. As the parent of a 7th grader in Alabama (enrolled in Advanced Math), I can tell you that the majority of these kids are confused over the so-called “math standards.” The teaching method is confusing. Students are no longer encouraged to show work, they are supposed to “guesstimate” and work it out in their heads, using stupid concepts like the lattice method, for example. LIT is taught? Are you kidding? All the kids had to study “The Hunger Games” this year. I don’t consider that to be classic literature. All that stuff is part of Common Core.
  
  VF, you are absolutely correct. My husband and I have spent hours teaching our daughter to do math problems the way WE were taught, 40 years ago. Lo and behold, when we use the methods we were taught, she gets it right away. She’s one of the few students in her class who has an A average.
  
  I recommend everyone read “The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America,” by Charlotte Iserbyt. It explains a lot. The push to keep American kids stupid is a deliberate one. No more American Exceptionalism.
  
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- GetRight
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:01am
  I am an Alabama mother of a first grader who is doing this math. I am so surprised to see this on Glenn’s show because my husband and I have been baffled by this crazy way of doing math. I have had to go online to figure out how to do it so I can help my son! It is crazy, but I struggled in math growing up and so did my husband so I thought that this might be a better way so I haven’t really questioned it. But it is ironic to see this considering what we have been going through with this math. My son can answer the problems the old fashioned way but I have to make him “show his work” to prove he did it the “right” way. So stupid. I will say that I like his school and he has a great teacher but I am frustrated with this curriculum. I keep seeing more and more evidence that public school just isn’t what it used to be. I have been considering homeschooling and wish so much we could afford Christian private school.
  
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- seabrise
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 11:39am
  Bamateacher, with 3 children in Alabama public schools, I respectfully disagree. My school system rolled out the Common Core math book this year, and the result are disheartening. For example, my boys, when learning 2 digit multiplication, were using a method called “Partial Products” to help them understand the process of multi-digit multiplication. What is to understand? The process is simple and adding another step confused my boys (and me!) I also take issue with the brevity of the lessons. New topics are introduced, one homework assignment is completed, then on to the next subject!! I hired tutors so my boys could attain mastery of new skills. A few times during the year, my 5th grade son’s teacher told the class to close the book and proceeded to teach the lesson from scratch. Because of our Math experience, I started reading about Common Core and the addition of the “Informational Sources” in English. A menu is as good as a book (approved books, of course), which is as good as a NYT Op-ed article. Where is the allowance for a particular teacher’s interests or strengths? Teachers become merely “facilitators” (maybe that is the point). As a result, I am pulling my kids from public school after this year. In my search for a school, the administrators of the 4 schools I looked at all mentioned that they were on target for record enrollment this year with 1 school at capacity in all but 5th grade. We are moving already troubled schools in the wrong d
  
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- freedom_gurl35
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:10pm
  As someone who lives in a Race to the Top state – and who is teaching for the first time with the CC – I can tell you that we do not have this kind of experience with Common Core. I teach English and am required to teach “informational text” for 50% of my courses. I’ve had to take out a lot of really good quality literature (including some things the students LOVE) in favor of teaching boring articles that have little bearing on student lives.
  
  Not only that, but the writing standards are just as bad. With the focus being on short written responses, students are not going to have much experience with longer essays and research. Plus with little to no emphasis on grammar & spelling at the high school level, I feel like I’m destroying future thinkers.
  
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- TheFederalist
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:12pm
  And what state are you in? I`ll guess you might be in a Democratic controlled state.
  
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- freedom_gurl35
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 7:29pm
  @TheFederalist – North Carolina. We just got rid of “Ma” Bev Perdue.
  
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- FedUpAlready
  Posted on March 17, 2013 at 4:45pm
  Amazing that this is the first time you’ve commented on here, and are conveniently brand new! A coincidence I think not! If your so proud of your State and it’s Common Core curriculum of Informational not educational teaching, why don’t you tell us what State your talking about???????
  
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janmil200
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:20am
Isn’t this the organization that I was reading about recently that is indoctrinating kindergartners with a lot of sexual perversion? Maybe not this one, but another.

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- spirited
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:22am
  CSCOPE
  Common Core
  Race To The Top
  
  >They are all inter-related. Look it up ;)
  
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YourKidding
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:17am
I don’t know how America’s Youth could get much dumber they’re clueless. Don’t see a promising future for America with these kids at the helm someday.

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- Caniac Steve
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:36am
  and sadly we who live in many communities often ignore what is going on in our schools..as we get too busy with life..or we no longer have school age kids at home..so we shrug our shoulders and say ..so what ..that’s what the government counts on..our uninformed apathy..
  
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- nesmond
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:05am
  It’s all part of the plan. If you’re stupid, you can’t argue.
  
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dee76
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:02am
This, and many more reasons are why I took my child out of school and started homeschooling. I was fortunate to stay home for 2 years, went back to finish school and she atttended a private home daycare. My child knew numbers colors shapes letters and more before she attended the day care. With daycare part time and myself working together she was at a first grade level before she went to a Montessori school part time. Montessori is the way a child should learn. Look it up. When I put her in kinder public, she was stuck. Couldnt move any further. Thre were many problems with the teachr and the staff. By second grade ni had enough and pulled her out. Kids are not allow ed to talk in the cafeteria, no high fives, the playground was nearly removed, they all dress alike. I told the office it was sick. We are now hapoily homeschooling. Not ever will I send her back.

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welovetheUSA
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:50pm
Times are a changing….the good news is we have the tools to get the word out and to stop this sort of ..ugh…Education must be taken out of government hands, period.

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spinelessdave
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:11pm
The deliberate dumbing down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
put out over a decade ago, a shows how it was being done here and
how it was done in other countries.
free pdf on google

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- dmforman
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:00am
  Agreed! Iserbyte’s book is eye opening. I’ve read the extended book and much of the original info behind it and as a former teacher, she is dead on. Gatto has a book as well. Iserbyte also has videos on You Tube.
  
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michaelmoron
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:26pm
Sit down for this one.

30 years ago, a guy named Yuri Bezmenov warned us.

Unfortunately, we didn’t have the internet, and the Global Bankster Cartel owned the “Big 3″.

This will make you sick to your stomach, because he was spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3nXvScRazg

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- The-Monk
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:58pm
  Hi Michaelmoron,
  
  I’ve seen that one many times….
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 11:17pm
  Hi Monk,
  
  Yes. I have posted it many times.
  
  If you check the stats, you can see i have helped to direct over 1000 blazers to it.
  
  Unfortunately, that is about 1,000,000 short of what it should be.
  
  I post links to reach a lot of people.
  
  If I didn’t regularly post them, some would not have had over 15,000 views from the blaze.
  
  I am sorry if I am disappointing you with repetition, but this is the way it must be.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:02am
  Good for you :)
  
  You should be posting that link often.
  
  We are in a Information war.
  
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RAMJR
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:17pm
As my little nephew likes to say, “DUH!”

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PatriotSunDevil
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:11pm
Left wing loons are trying to destroy our childrens’ minds. We need to take this attack very damn personal. We must question if tolerance is a sign of strength anymore.

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Stelex
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:03pm
Infiltrate the schools, indoctrinate the children, take a country. The Constitution has to be taught in school, by grade 6 a child should know the Bill of Rights and the Constitution. We don’t need to learn Mexican history where Arizona, Texas and whatnot is occupied territory, What was done was done, wars were fought and there were winners and losers. The US used to be a melting pot. The progs have divided us into every possible faction and thats how you take down a nation. Infighting kills. American first………Be an American First.

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claycopolitics
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:01pm
Please come join the fight at http://conservativeteachersofamerica.com

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AmerNDN10
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:53pm
In grade school we did have alot of history, mainly Civil War. We always started with Washington and ended near the time Kennedy was killed but never went in depth for it was end of school year by then. I knew of 2 girls that should hve been left back or had special courses but they shoved them both through up to HS grad. The one girl needed help filling out job applications. Anyhow, I always felt like she should have had extra help, but what is to happen to kids that can’t understand this new crap? Wow this Obama animal truly hates America. I believe he knows exactly what he is doing and when the hell will anyone in DC wake the F up and call him what he is…Enemy of the State!!!!!!
That Math is moronic! It’s like going up to Michigan on your way to Florida from NJ. geesh!

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- pemomofseven
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 6:14pm
  Love the math analogy! I think I’ll use that one if you don’t mind.
  
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civilwarcometh
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:46pm
Google Bill Ayers common core. Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes:

A national curriculum called Common Core
Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats
A leveling of all schools to one, low national standard, and a redistribution of education funds among school districts
An effective federal tracking of all students
The loss of the option of avoiding the national curriculum and tests through private school and home school
Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama’s community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda Darling-Hammond, a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers, the former leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground who became a professor of education and friend of Obama’s.

When these dangerous initiatives are implemented, there will be no escaping bad schools and a radical curriculum by moving to a good suburb, or by home schooling, or by enrolling your children in private schools.

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- civilwarcometh
  Posted on March 14, 2013 at 10:39pm
  Also Google ( Linda Darling-Hammond teaching matters).
  
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nighttrainno9
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:40pm
Common core is nothing more than indoctrination into socialism
and communism. Sure it dumbs down kids, there is no reason for them
to try to improve or get ahead. Thats the whole idea, kill the spirit
of capitalism so the kids become drones for the communist govt.
All the a-holes in washinton(with some exceptions) have bought into
the communist (elite-slave) type of society because these same A-HOLES
are sure they will be among the elite.

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- The_Pointy_End
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:31am
  Of course they will because we the people will never fire them. The founders built into our political system term limits – it is called elections. We the people are either to stupid or to lazy to implement it. That is why the USA now has a ruling class and sorry to say we are going to continue to have it.
  
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TOPOFTHEGAME
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:39pm
I believe the dumbing down of our children has been going since I left high school in 1960. That why Rush Limbaugh has been talking lately about L.I.V. low information voters. That’s who elected our current pRESIDENT IN CHIEF are low information voters. The “ONE” has small video bites, using ”’shared responsible”’, ”’social justice”’ and other phrases to appeal to group coming out of our schools.

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UICDAD
Posted on March 14, 2013 at 9:23pm
Common Core is non professor emeritus Billy Ayers baby. He’s been fighting America since the Weathermen days. He knew early on that the way to bring down the US is through its children. Billy Ayers and his ilk have infiltrated education and have taken over public schools from kindergarten to Harvard. These are the people who created Common Core

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