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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, let me see if I understand.

Common Core standards are too hard. Also, Common Core standards are too easy. Also, schools in the US were great before the Common Core. Except that schools in the US are awful, and everybody else in the world has better schools. Where the standards are higher, even where they're the same as the Common Core, which is dumbed-down and too hard (now we're back where we started).[/quote]

Common Core has shoved 6th grade concepts down to 1st grade. It has also shoved down reading levels, so all of a sudden 4th graders need to read at 8th grade levels -- overnight. And if you were already a struggling reader, now you are 6 or 7 levels behind. You are not given a chance to read books at your level...instead, you are told to just read the "more rigorous" material over and over and over again, until you "take deep meaning" from it.

At the same time, because they are going "deeper" they are covering less, so kids won't even make it through Algebra 2 by high school. They are learning math in groups, so some kids are learning a lot, and others, not at all.

It's the latest educational fad, and I worry that it will be the end of public education as we know it in the U.S.

Which Common Core standards, specifically, have shoved 6th grade concepts down to 1st grade? Which Common Core standards, specifically, require 4th grade students to read at 8th grade levels? (Where does the Common Core standards say which books must be read?) The Common Core Initiative says that the Common Core prepares students for Algebra I by 8th grade; is this what you mean when you say that "kids won't even make it through Algebra II by high school" -- and, if so, did the typical student take Algebra II in middle school before the Common Core?

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