Why are people so upset about Common Core?

[Anonymous]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/arne-duncan-pearson-testing_b_4648554.html

You Common Core supporters don't understand that this is part of the problem?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/arne-duncan-pearson-testing_b_4648554.html

You Common Core supporters don't understand that this is part of the problem?

Which problem, though?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Do you also think we should get rid of the Department of Defense?

No. However, it is far from the same thing.

You're right. The Defense Department contracts involve a lot more money.

[Anonymous]

You're right. The Defense Department contracts involve a lot more money.

And, is a lot more necessary than Common Core standards.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You're right. The Defense Department contracts involve a lot more money.

And, is a lot more necessary than Common Core standards.

If you believe that, then maybe you should read up on the Defense Department contracts. Start here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-brand-new-us-military-headquarters-in-afghanistan-and-nobody-to-use-it/2013/07/09/2bb73728-e8cd-11e2-a301-ea5a8116d211_story.html

A $34 million dollar building in Afghanistan that US military forces will never use and insisted, before it was built, that they did not need.

And here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/f-35s-ability-to-evade-budget-cuts-illustrates-challenge-of-paring-defense-spending/2013/03/09/42a6085a-8776-11e2-98a3-b3db6b9ac586_story.html

$400 billion (so far) for F-35 fighter planes that don't work and that independent defense analysts think we don't need.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jason-stanford/arne-duncan-pearson-testing_b_4648554.html

You Common Core supporters don't understand that this is part of the problem?

Maybe you could explain it in detail for us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/pearson-pays-77-million-in-common-core-settlement/2013/12/13/77515bba-6423-11e3-aa81-e1dab1360323_story.html

One more time: follow the money

Ok so the Pearson company had to give the money back. Now where is it? I'm sooo confused.

They didn't give money back. They paid a fine for violating the law by passing money from their non-profit to their profit. In other words, they are crooked.

But the fine was paid to the government right? So now they have it. Do you think this ws the govt's plan all along- give contracts to crooked companies so they could fine them and pocket the money?

[Anonymous]

The Department of Education has now made this into a federal issue. Common Core is too big. Take out the testing requirement and let the states run it as they wish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the testing requirement in the Common Core?

There is none.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Department of Education has now made this into a federal issue. Common Core is too big. Take out the testing requirement and let the states run it as they wish.

They actually are doing that already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
What is the testing requirement in the Common Core?

There is none.

However, the money from the federal government is tied to testing. Follow the money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What is the testing requirement in the Common Core?

There is none.

However, the money from the federal government is tied to testing. Follow the money.

You (or somebody) keep saying that. But as a statement just out there, all by itself, it's about as meaningful as "Martin Luther King Jr. was a subspecies of avocado."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
What is the testing requirement in the Common Core?

There is none.

However, the money from the federal government is tied to testing. Follow the money.

Perhaps you should create a flow chart for us. Or answer the questions people have already asked you, instead of repeating that ad nauseum.

[Anonymous]

You (or somebody) keep saying that. But as a statement just out there, all by itself, it's about as meaningful as "Martin Luther King Jr. was a subspecies of avocado."

Dept of Ed is tying money to requirement for teacher evaluation being tied to testing of standards. Pearson just got huge contract. Duncan has relationship with Pearson. What else do you want?

[Anonymous]

Amid all this mediocrity comes Pearson, the company that makes millions on standardized testing contracts in Florida ($254 million), New York ($32 million), and Texas ($468 million), among many others. This month Pearson executives met with Barack Obama and Duncan at the White House to discuss ways to help low-income students get into college. I'll match every dollar Pearson makes if you don't think the solution that Pearson proposed was more testing.

From the Huffington Post article. Make your own flow chart.