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Not the pp, but[b] I do education research for a living[/b]. It's absolutely true. Sorry you do not wish to hear it. 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.[b] 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[/b]. 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]

Holy deficit perspective, batman! Where do you work that this kind of attitude can pass in "education research"? The Heritage Foundation?[/quote]

You don't agree? All the research on the achievement gap shows that it has grown or stayed stable because higher SES parents are investing so much more in their kids' education. (Achievement in other groups has also increased, btw, but the gap hasn't closed because high SES parents have upped the ante.) Kids in certain homes are also way more likely to have much bigger vocabularies, which is a huge deal for achievement. It's not true across-the-board, but Asian-American kids are (as a group) out-performing all other groups in large part because their families invest heavily in their education.

I'm a bleeding heart liberal, btw. I come from poverty and a low-education Hispanic community. The facts are the facts.[/quote]

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