Common Core's epic fail: Special Education

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Main problem:
Poor parenting--caused by many things--among them, poverty. Pouring money into the schools will not overcome the first four years.

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Main problem:
Poor parenting--caused by many things--among them, poverty. Pouring money into the schools will not overcome the first four years.

What are your policy solutions to fix the problem of poor parenting?

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Main problem:
Poor parenting--caused by many things--among them, poverty. Pouring money into the schools will not overcome the first four years.

So schools should not try do anything to address it? Are they a lost cause without fixing the parenting issues?

[Anonymous]

So schools should not try do anything to address it? Are they a lost cause without fixing the parenting issues?

Didn't say that. It's a hard issue. Common core is not going to make it better.

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What are your policy solutions to fix the problem of poor parenting?

I don't have the solution. Perhaps, mentors to help with parenting skills? It is not going to be resolved overnight. However, I think teen parents are one of the issues with the achievement gap.

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So schools should not try do anything to address it? Are they a lost cause without fixing the parenting issues?

Didn't say that. It's a hard issue. Common core is not going to make it better.

No one said CC was going to address the poverty issue. CC is about having a curriculum for the 21st century job market. Having common standards is about ensuring kids from one state can meet the same standards as a kid from another state, which addresses disparities in standards amongst the states. Some states may have had low standards, while others had higher standards. That kind of disparity is a disservice to kids from the lower-standard states.

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No one said CC was going to address the poverty issue. CC is about having a curriculum for the 21st century job market. Having common standards is about ensuring kids from one state can meet the same standards as a kid from another state, which addresses disparities in standards amongst the states. Some states may have had low standards, while others had higher standards. That kind of disparity is a disservice to kids from the lower-standard states.

Every state has great schools and poor schools. There is more disparity in DC than there is from state to state.

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That kind of disparity is a disservice to kids from the lower-standard states.

That is BS.

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Which states do you consider 'lower standard" states?

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Do you consider Alabama a lower standard state? Go look up Mountain Brook High School. Check the average SAT scores.

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Common Core only addresses academic skills (in a very pointed way). Meanwhile, the real challenging issues in schools are NOT the academic ones. I wish they were.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you consider Alabama a lower standard state? Go look up Mountain Brook High School. Check the average SAT scores.

Did someone state that AL was a lower-standard state?

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What are your policy solutions to fix the problem of poor parenting?

I don't have the solution. Perhaps, mentors to help with parenting skills? It is not going to be resolved overnight. However, I think teen parents are one of the issues with the achievement gap.

Teen birth rates have been declining for the last 20 years - 61.8 births per 100,000 females aged 15-19, compared to 26.6 in 2013.

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Also, Common Core is only a "suggested" curriculum for the states. They cannot be compelled to use it (as evidenced by many states "pulling out" now). The schools are locally funded and the Constitution gives the states control of education. The feds may be overreaching.

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Anonymous wrote:

No one said CC was going to address the poverty issue. CC is about having a curriculum for the 21st century job market. Having common standards is about ensuring kids from one state can meet the same standards as a kid from another state, which addresses disparities in standards amongst the states. Some states may have had low standards, while others had higher standards. That kind of disparity is a disservice to kids from the lower-standard states.

Every state has great schools and poor schools. There is more disparity in DC than there is from state to state.

Indeed they do. But that doesn't mean the state or district standards were challenging. The disparity I speak of is not about the performance of the kids in a given school, but the disparities in the standards.

Example: we moved from a state that didn't require much writing ability in K-1. The standards for writing at the grade were pretty low. When we moved to a different state, the school district had a much higher standard for writing in K -1. My dc struggled for a year because of it. Luckily, DC caught up, but this is just one example.