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Common Core is totally untested. In states that have been using it and testing with it, like New York and Kentucky, about 70 percent of kids fail the standardized tests. They simply don't understand what they've been taught. When you factor in race or any kind of disability, the failure rate skyrockets. It's very language intensive, so if your child is a slow reader or has any other kind of language based learning disability, they're just screwed.

I was talking to a mom in another state. In her daughter's 6th grade class, out of 31 students, 23 failed.

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Is it possible common core is just exposing that your children [b]are not as advanced as you assumed[/b]?[/quote]

Arne Duncan, is that you?

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Not the pp, but I do education research for a living. [b]It's absolutely true. Sorry you do not wish to hear it. [/b]This is why more challenging standards are needed. (Though I don't disagree that implementation has been a real sh*tshow in many districts. That's a huge problem.)

Just by way of a history lesson, so people can understand how we got here, NCLB gave states a huge incentive to dumb down their standards. States that didn't meet self-established performance goals got dinged. So, many states just set low standards so they wouldn't face the consequences. In many cases, this resulted in a dumbing down of some education systems and curriculum. This has been going on for the better part of a decade. We're so used to it by now that we can't even seen how far behind we really are -- until you look at kids in other countries. Then you realize that we simply have to do better.

What I don't like about Common Core is that it continues to place the emphasis on schools instead of parents. Parents who don't invest in their kids, who don't read to them, who don't contribute toward their education in and outside of class, who rely on the schools to do all of the educating, are the reason kids do poorly. I realize that it's hard for parents who are working two jobs, etc., and we as a society need to do more to support that group. But, there are plenty of parents who don't work two jobs who still think the school is responsible for educating and they just follow along. There are plenty of parents who work two jobs and still insist on driving their kids to excel in school too. In my opinion, it's our parenting that needs to change if we are to move the needle on achievement. Perhaps not this extreme, but a little more Tiger momming would not kill us. [/quote]

Ah, an academic who doesn't understand how real, live, breathing children work.

Back in my day (I am in my 50s) parents did squat for the kids regarding school, except maybe drive us to the bus stop. We did all our work - but then, it was pretty attainable. It was much more age-appropriate. No Kindergarten homework. No abstract "Everyday Math" or Common Core in first grade. Heck, I don't remember having homework until 6th grade. We had one standardized test a year, starting in middle school. There were different tracks for kids who wanted to do different things. NOt everyone took college math. They took business math. Somehow, we all got jobs and are paying members of society.

Today, homework starts in K, and the kids don't understand it -- and neither do the parents.

It's a total crock that it's the parents' fault kids aren't doing well. Common Core sets up kids to fail. It's a bizarre over-correction from No Child Left Behind, the last piece of garbage foisted upon the schools. The families I know work hard with the kids on Common COre, but the kids still aren't  getting it. Many kids just don't learn in the fashion that Common Core demands.

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