Study: Obama's Common Core 'Worst Large-Scale Educational Failure in 40 Years'

[yota691]

9 Years Into Obama’s Common Core – Math Scores at 20 Year Low and Falling

November 6, 2018 Baxter Dmitry News, US 0

 

Nine years after Barack Obama forced schools around the country to adopt Common Core, teachers are coming forward with results to prove the controversial teaching method is a failure, and significantly less effective than traditional teaching methods.

Parents and teachers across the nation are now urging schools to dump the toxic Common Core curriculum, arguing that it deliberately dumbs down children and creates unnecessary and complicated methods for working out relatively simple problems.

 

Students are recording results lower than previously thought possible, and frustrated teachers are warning that “if we do nothing” about Common Core the results “will keep on declining.”

The newest batch of ACT scores show “dangerous long-term declines in performance,” with students’ math achievement reaching a new 20-year low, according to results released last month.

The average math score for the graduating class of 2018 was 20.5, marking a steady decline from 20.9 five years ago, and virtually no progress since 1998, when it was 20.6. Each of the four sections of the college-entrance exam is graded on a 36-point scale.

“We’re at a very dangerous point. And if we do nothing, it will keep on declining,” ACT’s chief executive officer, Marten Roorda, said in an interview.

Education Weeks reports: The pattern in math scores is particularly worrisome at a time when strong math skills are important for the science, engineering, and technology jobs that play powerful roles in the U.S. economy, he said.

Matt Larson, the immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, said the math scores “are extremely disappointing, but not entirely unexpected.”

 

Concerns About College Readiness

While the trends in ACT math were worrisome, the scores in English didn’t offer much cause for celebration, either. The average score for the class of 2018 was 20.2, the same as five years ago, and down half a point from the English-score high in 2007.

On the science section of the ACT, students in the class of 2018 averaged 20.7, down from 21 in 2017, and about the same as five years ago.

The national average composite score for the class of 2018 was 20.8, down from 21 in 2017 and about the same as in 2016.

Math and English scores drew the attention of the ACT by another measure, too: readiness for college-level work. The ACT’s score benchmarks are correlated with the likelihood of earning Bs or Cs in credit-bearing coursework. And increasing numbers of students are falling short.

Only 4 in 10 met the math benchmark, the lowest level since 2004, and down from 46 percent in 2012. Six in 10 met the English benchmark, the lowest level since the benchmarks were introduced in 2002.

It’s going to take a lot more than acknowledging Common Core’s failure to make up for the years of classroom chaos that the Bill Gates/Barack Obama curriculum inflicted on many teachers and students without their consent. A direct apology and a promise to stay away from our kids and their education in the future would be a start.

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Like so many of ho'bummer's leftist  "FORWARD" agenda policies,

 

kommie kore is an ===> EPIC FAIL.

 

Too bad so many American children have fallen victim to the socialist indoctrination.  

 

Dumbing-down the masses is a key element in their kommie tool box.

Makes it easier to kontrol them & ultimately, take them over.

 

Globalist Illuminatis - Bill & Melinda Gates have spent billions assisting in this globalist plan world-wide...

Targeting the weakest in every country they've implemented their "Foundation" in.... under the guise of

"helping the less fortunate".  

 

Pretending to bring "order" out of the chaos they themselves have / are creating, tricks the desperate masses

into coming around to grabbing onto the fake life preserver they eventually throw them...

all while blaming ===>   God, Bibles, Capitalism, Guns, Patriotism ('Nationalism'), and rich old white men.

 

Walk away, America.  Kommies are drugging you with their kool-aid :  Just say "NO."

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[Synopsis]

2 hours ago, SgtFuryUSCZ said:

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Like so many of ho'bummer's leftist  "FORWARD" agenda policies,

 

kommie kore is an ===> EPIC FAIL.

 

Too bad so many American children have fallen victim to the socialist indoctrination.  

 

Dumbing-down the masses is a key element in their kommie tool box.

Makes it easier to kontrol them & ultimately, take them over.

 

Globalist Illuminatis - Bill & Melinda Gates have spent billions assisting in this globalist plan world-wide...

Targeting the weakest in every country they've implemented their "Foundation" in.... under the guise of

"helping the less fortunate".  

 

Pretending to bring "order" out of the chaos they themselves have / are creating, tricks the desperate masses

into coming around to grabbing onto the fake life preserver they eventually throw them...

all while blaming ===>   God, Bibles, Capitalism, Guns, Patriotism ('Nationalism'), and rich old white men.

 

Walk away, America.  Kommies are drugging you with their kool-aid :  Just say "NO."

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HEAR!!! HEAR!!!

 

    !!!SgtFuryUSCZ!!!    

[DinarDavo]

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Edited November 17, 2018 by DinarDavo

[GregHi]

Then MAGA!!!!! 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

7 hours ago, GregHi said:

Then MAGA!!!!! 

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EXACTLY !

[yota691]

Study: Obama's Common Core 'Worst Large-Scale Educational Failure in 40 Years' Research examined the effects of the Common Core State Standards on schools By: Jay Greenberg  |@NeonNettle on 24th November 2018 @ 12.00am © press The study found that Obama's Common Core is a 'large-scale educational failure' Researchers, who conducted a study into the impact of former President Obama's Common Core State Standards on schools, declared the teaching practices to be "worst large-scale educational failure in 40 years."The study examined the effects of Common Core on school choice and found the Obama-era K-12 educational reform demonstrated sharp drops in academic performance.Ted Rebarber of AccountabilityWorks co-authored the study with Cato Institute’s Neal McCluskey, who previously led another study, titled “Common Core, School Choice and Rethinking Standards-Based Reform,” which was published by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute.The pair discussed their findings at a Heritage Foundation event last week, explaining how Common Core has not only damaged public-school education but also has created obstacles for choosing schools. Rebarber highlighted the danger when politicians submit to the allure of standards-based educational reforms.“Standards become the blueprint around which schools organize their teaching, their day-to-day academic operations,” he said. “They’re effectively curriculum central planning by government.” © press Ted Rebarber of Accountability Works co-authored the study that highlights the failures of Common Core In the study, the authors observed that since Common Core was implemented in 45 states and Washington, DC, students have demonstrated sharp drops in academic performance, according to Breitbart. Additionally, those students who were already performing poorly– many of them minority students – declined even further. in the name of accountability, when private school choice programs receive taxpayer-funded vouchers, they are often forced to adopt the curriculum on which the state standardized test is based. In most cases, that curriculum is aligned with Common Core.According to the study, about two-thirds of the nation’s tuition grant (“voucher”) programs mandate that schools administer a single curriculum-based test, usually a Common Core-aligned test, in order to receive the public funds.An example is Central Christian Academy in Indiana, a state that has touted its extensive “school voucher” program.In 2017, the Christian school was presented with a “D” rating from the state because of students’ scores on the state-mandated test – which they must take because the school is receiving public funds. The poor rating was accompanied by a threat of a loss of voucher funding, a prospect that could have led to the closing of the school since vouchers help many families afford this private school option.Ultimately, Chalkbeat observed that Indiana made some changes to how it evaluates schools and Central Christian’s students had to become more test-focused in order to remain open.Nevertheless, the education news outlet noted that, in Indiana, private schools also “now live or die by test scores, too,” just as public schools, because of vouchers. Avoid Internet censorship by subscribing to us directly “That money comes with strings attached, and low test scores have cost 16 schools the right to accept new vouchers,” the report observed.“At least three have closed.”Ironically, private schools that accept vouchers are forced to do things the “Common Core way,” even though dramatic declines in U.S. student performance on national and international assessments have occurred since the Core was implemented. “Common Core blunts the innovation, dynamism, and competition that is the heart of the school choice movement,” McCluskey noted.The Core was sold not only as a set of standards that was “rigorous” and designed to encourage higher levels of achievement but also as a program that would shrink the achievement gap between middle-class students and those from the lower socioeconomic levels. In April of 2016, only about 37 percent of U.S. 12th graders were shown to be prepared for math and reading at the college level, according to the 2015 NAEP – also known as the Nation’s Report Card.Additionally, results released by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) showed that on the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), the U.S. has declined in performance from fifth in international ranking in 2011 to 13th in 2016 out of 58 international education systems. © press Indiana's Central Christian’s students had to become more test-focused in order to remain open. The PIRLS revealed achievement for the top-performing 20 percent of students became flat over time, while the lowest 20 percent declined further.“We seem to be declining as other education systems record larger gains on the assessment,” said Peggy G. Carr, acting commissioner for the federal NCES, according to the Washington Post.“This is a trend we’ve seen on other international assessments in which the U.S. participates.”Accountability to the government has also become a major factor in terms of the content of what is taught and the services provided in religious schools that accept school vouchers. NWItimes.com provides another example from Indiana.Jennifer McCormick, the Republican state superintendent of public schools, has decided private schools that accept state voucher funds should not discriminate against LGBT children in admissions and other services – regardless of the school’s faith beliefs.McCormick’s justification for her decision is based upon the Common Core “workforce development” model of education that views children as prospective laborers who can fulfill big business’s needs for inexpensive, local workers.“If our goal as a state is to develop a well-educated workforce, and one that we want businesses to come here because we’re inclusive, we are accepting. I think part of that goes to our actions,” McCormick said. “And when we still have schools that receive taxpayer dollars that can exclude students — that’s a problem.”According to the report, McCormick said private schools that accept vouchers would need to have their admissions policies controlled by the state.

 

[SgtFuryUSCZ]

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Kommie Kore & Ho'bummer-Lack-O-Care....

Only 2 of the EPIC FAILS of a kommie tool who wasn't as smart as they all told US he was. 

 

Minds laid to waste & ruin...

 "A mind is a terrible thing to waste"...

guess they never counted on Kommie Kore...

 

They keep telling US how smart that useful idiot is,

yet he & all his "brilliant" team couldn't so the simple math of the thing.  

 

Maybe everyone on his team was a victim of their kommie universities & were used

as Kommie Kore lab rats before .graduating to become tools of his administration.

 

Only his she-man beard MOOCHelle's pal - the supposed computer whiz who was

supposed to save ho'bummer-lack-o-care got rich....

 

wonder how much the ho'bummer's kick-back was for THAT wealth re-distribution plot....

and was it as lucrative as the ruse they pulled off & got rich on from SOLYNDRA....?

 

 

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Edited December 6, 2018 by SgtFuryUSCZ