PARCC monitoring student's social media, wants schools to "punish" them

[Anonymous]

I believe this person 100%. I don't know why you think that everyone who is against CC is a tea party member. Not everyone is as partisan as you are.

Answer: the person who is so strongly supporting CC has lost the argument in favor of it. Personal attacks is her/his only argument. I have yet to see anything on here that shows that CC is making things better for kids.

[Anonymous]

Our Nation is at risk. Our once unchallenged preeminence in commerce, industry, science, and technological innovation is being overtaken by competitors throughout the world. This report is concerned with only one of the many causes and dimensions of the problem, but it is the one that undergirds American prosperity, security, and civility. We report to the American people that while we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being eroded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a Nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur--others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments.

If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament.

Our society and its educational institutions seem to have lost sight of the basic purposes of schooling, and of the high expectations and disciplined effort needed to attain them. This report, the result of 18 months of study, seeks to generate reform of our educational system in fundamental ways and to renew the Nation's commitment to schools and colleges of high quality throughout the length and breadth of our land.

That we have compromised this commitment is, upon reflection, hardly surprising, given the multitude of often conflicting demands we have placed on our Nation's schools and colleges. They are routinely called on to provide solutions to personal, social, and political problems that the home and other institutions either will not or cannot resolve. We must understand that these demands on our schools and colleges often exact an educational cost as well as a financial one.

http://www2.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html

So, this report is from 1983. 32 years ago. Guess what? We are still the largest economy in the world. We still have the largest military in the world. We still lead the free world. We still have the best universities in the world. All those fears did not pan out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:from PARCConline.org

Our Belief


PARCC is based on the core belief that assessment should work as a tool for enhancing teaching and learning. Because the assessments are aligned with the new, more rigorous Common Core State Standards (CCSS), they ensure that every child is on a path to college and career readiness by measuring what students should know at each grade level. They will also provide parents and teachers with timely information to identify students who may be falling behind and need extra help.

Sure sounds like the child is supposed to be taking the grade level test.

That is PARCC. PARCC is not the Common Core standards. PARCC is a test that is aligned to the Common Core standards. Here are the Common Core standards:

http://www.corestandards.org/read-the-standards/

[Anonymous]

^ We have the strongest currency in the world. We are the top oil producer in the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

So, this report is from 1983. 32 years ago. Guess what? We are still the largest economy in the world. We still have the largest military in the world. We still lead the free world. We still have the best universities in the world. All those fears did not pan out.

OK. Also, the NCLB Act is from 2001. 14 years ago. Guess what? We are still the largest economy in the world. We still have the largest military in the world. We still lead the free world. We still have the best universities in the world. So there must not be any problems with education -- right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

What does that have to do with the Common Core standards? The Common Core standards don't say anything about which test (required by the No Child Left Behind Act) a child has to take.

What is PARCC then? Isn't that connected to Common Core?

PARCC is one of the tests that states can use to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act requirement for testing.

[Anonymous]

OK. Also, the NCLB Act is from 2001. 14 years ago. Guess what? We are still the largest economy in the world. We still have the largest military in the world. We still lead the free world. We still have the best universities in the world. So there must not be any problems with education -- right?

Well, whatever those problems are, they are not affecting our economy relative to the rest of the world.

[Anonymous]

OK. Also, the NCLB Act is from 2001. 14 years ago. Guess what? We are still the largest economy in the world. We still have the largest military in the world. We still lead the free world. We still have the best universities in the world. So there must not be any problems with education -- right?

NCLB (No Child Left Behind) was passed in an effort to close the achievement gap. Guess what? It hasn't worked. It will take a few years to see the damage done, but it is more than you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I believe this person 100%. I don't know why you think that everyone who is against CC is a tea party member. Not everyone is as partisan as you are.

Answer: the person who is so strongly supporting CC has lost the argument in favor of it. Personal attacks is her/his only argument. I have yet to see anything on here that shows that CC is making things better for kids.

I have yet to see anything on here that shows that the Common Core standards are making things worse for kids.

[Anonymous]

BTW, what are those huge problems with our education? College attendance is at record highs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

OK. Also, the NCLB Act is from 2001. 14 years ago. Guess what? We are still the largest economy in the world. We still have the largest military in the world. We still lead the free world. We still have the best universities in the world. So there must not be any problems with education -- right?

NCLB (No Child Left Behind) was passed in an effort to close the achievement gap. Guess what? It hasn't worked. It will take a few years to see the damage done, but it is more than you think.

14 years isn't enough time to see the damage done?

[Anonymous]

PARCC is one of the tests that states can use to comply with the No Child Left Behind Act requirement for testing

No, PARCC was established to test the Common Core standards. It is not used by states not using Common Core.

[Anonymous]

I have yet to see anything on here that shows that the Common Core standards are making things worse for kids.

Shouldn't it be making things better? If the standard is "not making things worse", it's not much of a standard for the standards.

[Anonymous]

I have yet to see anything on here that shows that the Common Core standards are making things worse for kids.

Well, certainly there have been a lot of people on this thread who have posted standards that are poorly written and inappropriate. There is a huge disagreement over the K and first grade standards--probably because more people can understand what is appropriate and inappropriate at that grade level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I have yet to see anything on here that shows that the Common Core standards are making things worse for kids.

Well, certainly there have been a lot of people on this thread who have posted standards that are poorly written and inappropriate. There is a huge disagreement over the K and first grade standards--probably because more people can understand what is appropriate and inappropriate at that grade level.

No, there haven't. I have posted almost all of the standards that have been posted on the Common Core threads on DCUM, and I am not an opponent of the Common Core. Then the Common Core opponents respond with things like "LOL!" or "Developmentally inappropriate!" or "So badly written and unclear!", and then other non-opponents respond by asking why it's funny or developmentally inappropriate, or by saying that they understand the standard, and then the opponents gallop on to some other topic.