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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And more still: http://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2014/11/30/chinese-american-mom-says-common-core-is-just-like-education-in-communist-china/

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Lily Tang Williams, a mother of three, testified before the Colorado State Board of Education[/b] that Common Core was similar to the education she received growing up in Mao’s Communist China.

“Common Core, in my eyes, is the same as the Communist core I once saw in China,” Williams said. “I grew up under Mao’s regime and we had the Communist-dominated education — nationalized testing, nationalized curriculum, and nationalized indoctrination.”

In a post at FreedomWorks, Williams wrote about her experience with the Chinese education system:

Our teachers had to comply with all the curriculum and testing requirements, or lose their jobs forever. Parents had no choice at all when it came to what we learned in school. The government used the Household Registration and Personnel File system to keep track of its citizens from birth to death.

“I came to this country for freedom and I cannot believe this is happening all over again in this country,” she said in the meeting. “I don’t know what happened to  America, the Shining City on the Hill for freedom.”

She said Americans should not compare their children (or their kids’ test scores) to those being educated under the Chinese system.

“I am telling you, Chinese children are not trained to be independent thinkers,” said Williams. “They are trained to be massive skilled workers for corporations. And they have no idea what happened in Tiananmen Square in 1989 where government ordered soldiers to shoot its own 1,000 students.”[/quote]

Everything I have read on your post about it being like the Chinese standards has to do with testing and teaching to the tests.  It doesn't show any example of how CC standards = not creative thinking, Chinese way of teaching.  This has nothing to do with what standards are in CC, but everything to do with how we assess whether the kids are meeting those standards.  Those are two different issues.  People are upset that there are national standards, but many countries, including Western countries, have national standards.

For example, Canada:
[b]"All public schools in Canada are provincially accredited, follow a standard curriculum[/b], employ only government certified teachers and are publicly funded. While the education system in each province contains many similarities, each has its own Study Canada curriculum and guidelines to reflect the culture and history of its region."

http://www.caps-i.ca/education-in-canada/

Every state that has implemented CC here follow the same standards, but choose to implement it differently with different a curriculum.  In MD, we follow CC standards, but as part of the curriculum, my kids have learned about local MD geography, etc.  Same as Canada.  I'm sure there are more examples of Western countries that have national education standards.

There is nothing wrong with having national standards.  The issue that the Chinese person is addressing is about the focus on testing.  Here in the US, the parents are constantly complaining about how some of our kids are doing poorly, not learning. We want accountability.  So, the schools come up with a way to assess accountability, which is testing.  Now, parents are complaining that we are testing to assess if the kids are actually learning.  How do you assess whether a child is actually learning without testing that child?[/quote]

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