Study: Historic Drop in U.S. Reading and Math
Scores Since Common Core ‘Debacle’
Breitbart Politics,
by
Dr. Susan Berry
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/28/2020 3:04:09 AM
A study released Monday by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute reveals a historic drop in national reading and math scores among U.S. students since the adoption of the Common Core Curriculum Standards a decade ago.
“Nearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,” said Pioneer executive director Jim Stergios in a statement. “The proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.”
The study, titled “The Common Core Debacle” and authored by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber, asserts the “shocking trends” in American student performance in critical math and reading skills
Reply 1 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 4/28/2020 3:36:19 AM (No. 393940)
Future voters, along with all the legal and illegal aliens we've been importing for the last 40 years. We'll get our socialist paradise one way or another. There's power in numbers. Or as Stalin said, "Quantity has a quality of its own".
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
PChristopher 4/28/2020 5:43:19 AM (No. 393958)
Oh, good. Something else to thanks the Bushes for.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 4/28/2020 5:59:09 AM (No. 393968)
Government usurping parental role in their child’s education.
Just look at the damage they’ve done to students this year alone. Another wake up call. Home school or private school.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
franq 4/28/2020 6:00:36 AM (No. 393970)
Keep 'em dumb and unemployed.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 4/28/2020 7:01:12 AM (No. 394002)
You can also thank Big Publishing, who essentially dictates your child's education.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
edgar 4/28/2020 7:05:19 AM (No. 394006)
My wife is a public school teacher. The response to the Wuhan Virus is to continue to lower the bar. Schools need to re-open to deliver an education. They are not set up for remote learning. As a result, there is very little learning and teachers are directed to lower the bar and let students skate.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GO3 4/28/2020 7:17:43 AM (No. 394018)
Yes #2. Even as governor Bush turned over a lot of power and money to the education establishment. Thanks to Laura, there was a reported shift of state funds to education to ensure his re-election to a second term. The property tax rates are approved not by the governor, the legislature, or a legislative committee, but by...wait for it...the TEA.
As I mentioned on another post, Texas is traditionally a democrat state. Only six of the 45 governors were/are republican. The republican governors have to play ball with a legislature which could go wobbly at the drop of a hat. Only four seats need to flipped for the senate to go blue. The house is harder with nine seats needing to be flipped. This doesn't include state agencies such as the TEA who control an agenda, which the governor seems too timid to oppose.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Red Jeep 4/28/2020 7:27:40 AM (No. 394024)
The more adults are kept child-like and under educated the easier they are to rule over.
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Math be racis.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rather Read 4/28/2020 7:46:33 AM (No. 394037)
I knew this would happen. I've worked in a university library for 40 years and the students are getting dumber and dumber.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Kahunavol 4/28/2020 7:54:31 AM (No. 394043)
Bill Gates had a large hand in this debacle also, now he's ready to fix health care. Hard pass.
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Perhaps the important question is not what students know. The salient point is who these students are.
The demographics of who are being tested from a decade ago, two, and especially three and four decades ago are radically different. So many kids in school today are not home-born, home-grown kids arriving into the classrooms and "bringing skills to the table" with all the benefits of a stable two-parent American family speaking standard English which enables them to do their part in the educational process. The vast majority of kids are foreign, non-english speaking and/or poverty-stricken, neglected refugees of single moms and/or divorced dads, all of whom have had a significant deficit in skills, knowledge, abilities, encouragement, fortitude, even love, all necessary components for kids to do their part once they arrive at school.
The NAEP is given to fourth and eighth graders. How many of the kids tested in those grades weren't even part of the American educational system at all before the NAEP "snapshot" test was given? When immigrant kids with perhaps no educational background at all from birth to eighth grade arrive in America at those grades, they are given these tests, in English, and scored on what they know or don't don't in that snapshot. How can what they weren't taught in their home countries be a reflection of America schools?
The NAEP data needs some serious disaggregation for national origin, primary language, race, and economic class.
I wonder, are home-grown, traditional American kids from stable families scoring poorly as well? From this article, we don't know, as all testees are all lumped together. So, Apples and...not even oranges.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
philsner 4/28/2020 8:06:32 AM (No. 394061)
Who knew?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Clinger 4/28/2020 8:11:49 AM (No. 394070)
I think the intention of common core was to put a wall between parents and children further advancing the influence of the state. As screwed up as the math processes are I think the greatest cost is the loss of the help parents once provided. Now that the processes demanded are far different than how the parents were taught and do math in their jobs and home life their ability to support is diminished. I will admit to less knowledge regarding common core methodology in other subjects.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Venturer 4/28/2020 8:12:35 AM (No. 394071)
Go back to teaching the old Math multiple tables and take the calculators out of the classroom.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bpl40 4/28/2020 8:14:11 AM (No. 394076)
All students will not suffer equally. This will increase performance difference between white and minority (Asians merely proving the point) and boys and girls. Another "Women and minorities affected" headline.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Kafka2 4/28/2020 8:19:18 AM (No. 394087)
Noting that the public education systems in many parts of the country were failing to teach students the minimum level of reading and mathematics needed to get by in in this country, it was proposed that national standards of proficiency be developed to correct the problem. Common Core was developed and sold as the answer. The standards that Common Core were to meet were minimal to begin with, but Common Core failed to meet them. Most of the instruction materials were so lame that they were boring to anybody with an IQ above 90. And, many of the reading materials were Progressive propaganda. In many schools now, cursive writing, the alphabet, and multiplication tables are not even taught.
Is it any wonder Common Core is a failure?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
MickTurn 4/28/2020 8:24:14 AM (No. 394096)
This is by design...those that came up with Common Core WANT our young to be idiots and vote for them...It's the COMMUNIST WAY!
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 4/28/2020 9:13:48 AM (No. 394151)
The Federal Department of Education must be abolished due to redundancy. Give it over to the States and let them decide.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
HotRod 4/28/2020 9:20:25 AM (No. 394163)
Teachers, who had been teaching for 20 - 30 years at the time, warned us about the common core movement. They were ignored by government bureaucrats and mocked in the media.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Georgia Peach 4/28/2020 9:30:11 AM (No. 394177)
It was intentional.That was the goal.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Strike3 4/28/2020 9:30:46 AM (No. 394179)
American students have been steadily falling behind ever since the rise of teachers' unions and increasing federal control. We have had Common Core, No Child Left Behind, The New Math, all of which have driven performance averages down. We have allowed schools to introduce our children to sexual perversion, modified history to fit an agenda, politically correct indoctrination, etc. Underlying factors are at work, like single parents, both parents working, neither parent working, uncontrolled television and "devices" and a lost thirst for knowledge. We have lost at least three generations and that is probably all that is needed to keep our younger generations in the dark for another ten generations, provided America can last that long.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
fayebeck 4/28/2020 9:39:09 AM (No. 394189)
Of course it's the PARENTS FAULT....
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
joew9 4/28/2020 9:45:07 AM (No. 394194)
It's been the battle of whole word against phonics. And whole word has been winning.
It actually started in about the 1920's.
Starting in 1956 I was a victim of whole word in 1st and 2nd grade.
My 3rd grade teacher taught me to read.
Thank goodness the math nonsense hadn't yet started.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 4/28/2020 9:47:36 AM (No. 394199)
But our children are all well versed in political correctness and climate change. They're going to save the planet and bring social justice to all! Meanwhile tyranny flourishes.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
starboard 4/28/2020 9:56:17 AM (No. 394208)
What bothers me most is the lack of teaching history in our schools, especially American history.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
jayhawk 4/28/2020 10:21:55 AM (No. 394227)
Duh! Every parent & grandparent in the nation trying to help kids with homework tried telling the losers who came up with this common core garbage that it was going to ruin math skills of generations of students! Would they listen??
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
bigfatslob 4/28/2020 10:42:45 AM (No. 394245)
I'm old and don't have interaction with children or schools so is Common Core over or when did it end if it ended?
I read years ago how math was to be taught and I couldn't understand the instructions. I seemed to me if you learned simple math it would have been faster and shorter to do. There was a reason for Common Core and it wasn't to educate it was to indoctrinate. Liberal math, ten birds are perched on a branch nine fly away how does the one bird left feel.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
Arby 4/28/2020 10:49:50 AM (No. 394249)
The worst thing is that the ed schools and their ideology are now affecting the entire university. They used to be an object of scorn among the professoriate. Now their self-esteem-first, multiculty, therapeutic approach to education is commonplace. And those who suffer the most? The ones who are supposedly helped by this 'regimen'.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
mc squared 4/28/2020 11:18:08 AM (No. 394274)
It didn't fail. It worked well.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
mathman 4/28/2020 11:56:40 AM (No. 394313)
But Common Core is totally egalatarian. No discrimination among children of differing abilities is tolerated. All people are identically able. It says so. No advanced classes, no retard classes. Everyone masters the same skills.
Of course everyone cannot master the same skills. So the whole thing is dumbed down.
Result: an overall decrease in demonstrated proficiency. And we bore the s*** out of the bright ones. And we lose the weak ones in a fog of mystery.
Three Cheers for Common Core! We hit the spot for the 40% in the middle. The other 60%? Forget about them.
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Yeah, students know nothing of the 3Rs but they feel good about themselves. AND, they know how to put a condom over a banana.
Goobermint schools are nothing more than taxpayer-paid daycare centers and indoctrination centers for socialist/communist nonsense.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
lakerman1 4/28/2020 1:17:22 PM (No. 394398)
On July 26, 2012, President Barack Hussein Obola issued an executive order titled 'on The Education Of African American Students.'
Among other things, the EO created a quota system on the meting out of student disciple based on race.
every school district school was forbidden for issuing more discipline by race than the percentages of student population at that school by race.
It was the worst possible thing Barack could do to his black brothers and sisters.
9If you doubt my interprewtation of the E.O, google it.)
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
RedWhite&Blue2 4/28/2020 1:18:33 PM (No. 394400)
I was a school counselor at the community college level. Worked in Illinois California and Nevada...talked to many different counselors in different programs in different cities and states...
The consensus was this:
We all had many students who passed their placement tests when they arrived but we also had so many students who needed English 99 or 100 or Math 99 or 100 before they could register for 101 classes.
They didn’t have the basic math or English skills equivalent to the programs they were trying to enter.
So what did they do all day there in their
HIGH SCHOOL????
Learn how to hate conservatives?
Learn about transgenders?
Learn about political movements?
I’d love to be a “fly on the wall” in some of these high schools.....
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
Philipsonh 4/28/2020 2:32:48 PM (No. 394481)
Some years ago I watched a PBS program where the teacher was solving a math problem for the students watching. She wrote it out and in 2 seconds I had the solution in my head. Possibly 10 minutes or so later, after innumerable steps, she showed the same solution. My question is, if a person is standing in line to pay for a purchase, will that person use common core math to ensure they get the correct change, with 15 people bcaked up behind waiting to pay for their purchase ? You know the answer to that. It's a USELESS way to do anything.
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
or gate 4/28/2020 2:37:35 PM (No. 394485)
Most of our schools just teach Trump hate.
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
Penney 4/28/2020 4:07:17 PM (No. 394545)
The failure of common core is evident. Why have so many American successes throughout our society and history been cut away from us now? Too many, ''change,'' fiascos such as this failure are hurting the country and the lives of Americans, eh dems?
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
ArizonaGal 4/28/2020 4:58:51 PM (No. 394601)
Any mathematician would tell you Common Core math was Voodoo Math. It was specifically designed to create a distrust of parents' opinions and answers so that educators could convince the students not to listen to their parents. Parents are too dumb to understand all the things the student is now learning - be it math, climate control, political views, etc. My parents were both dedicated school teachers. I am so glad they died before they could see this happen.
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/28/2020 7:29:02 PM (No. 394763)
My BFF taught public school for over 30 years, mostly in ''under served'' neighborhoods, but she loved it--especially finding the one or two kids in each class who had what she called ''the spark.'' She retired one year earlier than planned because our school system decided to introduce Common Core. From all the in-service training give active teachers, she had figured out that Common Core was anti-educational.
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
Robert Jones 4/28/2020 11:58:24 PM (No. 394940)
So sad. So predictable. I complained to a college math professor and tried to discuss with her these issues and she said she didn’t know much about it, ite! This was so predictable and the college teacher didn’t bother to study it. The NEA should all be kicked out and start with new teachers. The people running education are lazy and have no clue!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
4Justice 4/29/2020 3:21:39 AM (No. 394968)
Commie Core was designed to create generations of illiterate, uneducated simpletons who could be easily manipulated.
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