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The Story of Thanksgiving…As Told by College Students

A college news website deployed a reporter to a local university and asked students to tell the famous story of Thanksgiving.

They didn’t appear to do so good.

One University of Colorado Boulder student told Campus Reform reporter Caleb Bonham that the pilgrims arrived at North America in 1810. Others had trouble identifying the Mayflower as their ship.

“Their reciting of the first Thanksgiving is as inaccurate as it is hilarious,” Bonham said.

 
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Principals say Common Core tests make little kids vomit, pee their pants

In a frank and stunning letter to parents, eight school principals from around the state of New York have expressed deep concerns about the validity and usefulness of new Common Core-aligned tests foisted on all public-school children in grades three through eight.

In their lengthy letter, the group of principals warns that many children have experienced viscerally negative responses to the high-stakes tests.
 
Illinois high school requires parents to self-identify as liberal or conservative

OAK FOREST - An assignment sent home from an Oak Forest, IL high school government class is raising eyebrows among parents who are shocked by the questionnaire they and their children are required to fill out. The questionnaire (below) has the parents identify their positions on a number of highly-charged issues, and then places them on a "political spectrum."
The survey is part of Oak Forest High School's Common Core curriculum, which according to the school district's website is to ..."provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them."

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/i...h-school-surveys-parents-political-views.html
 
Cruella said:
Illinois high school requires parents to self-identify as liberal or conservative

OAK FOREST - An assignment sent home from an Oak Forest, IL high school government class is raising eyebrows among parents who are shocked by the questionnaire they and their children are required to fill out. The questionnaire (below) has the parents identify their positions on a number of highly-charged issues, and then places them on a "political spectrum."
The survey is part of Oak Forest High School's Common Core curriculum, which according to the school district's website is to ..."provide a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn, so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help them."

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/i...h-school-surveys-parents-political-views.html
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Oh .... but NO .... there is no indoctrination ..... classification ....
 
This is a great article on common core. But you have to read the whole thing in order to understand how our kids are being taught.

http://townhall.com/columnists/terr...core-assaults-world-war-ii-n1756036/page/full

A Textbook That Should Live in Infamy: The Common Core Assaults World War II

There is more than a little sophistry taking place here: an alarming superficiality and political bias that pervades all the Common Core textbooks (as I have illustrated in my book The Story-Killers: A Common Sense Case Against the Common Core). There is no reading in this chapter ostensibly devoted to World War II that tells why America entered the war. There is no document on Pearl Harbor or the Rape of Nanking or the atrocities committed against the Jews or the bombing of Britain. The book contains no speech of Winston Churchill or F.D.R. even though the reading of high-caliber “informational texts” is the new priority set by the Common Core, and great rhetoric has always been the province of an English class. There is not a single account of a battle or of American losses or of the liberation of Europe. The editors do not balance Jarrell’s poem with the much more famous war song “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition” that ends with the line, “And we’ll all stay free!” The rest of this chapter consists in a poster of a junk rally to gather metals for the making of munitions, a New York Times editorial, and a political cartoon penned by Dr. Seuss (who supported the war). There is not a single document or sentence in the chapter that would make a young reader consider the Axis Powers anything other than “enemies” in quotes. Essentially, all of World War II has been reduced to dropping the bomb and consequently, we are led to believe, America’s inhumanity. In short, the entire presentation of the Second World War is not an exercise in critical thinking; nor will it make students “college and career ready.” This is not teaching. It is programming, pure and simple.
 
Texas_tea said:
'Teach the Test' drives criticism from teachers of Common Core standards

GROWING NUMBER OF TEACHERS say pressure to teach national Common Core standards is taking individuality out of the classroom and turning lessons into data-dispensing sessions.
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Uh... how is this different from what teachets have complained about since standsrdized testing began ? Yeah none at all. Teachers do not care for being evaluated. Therecis some validity as they have zero control over what happens outside the class. If they choose tocteach the test over teach the curriculum then shame on them.
 
dogtowner said:
Uh... how is this different from what teachets have complained about since standsrdized testing began ? Yeah none at all. Teachers do not care for being evaluated. Therecis some validity as they have zero control over what happens outside the class. If they choose tocteach the test over teach the curriculum then shame on them.
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That's not what the article is saying ....

“Now teachers aren’t as unique,” said Michael Warren, a public school history teacher in New Jersey. “It means anyone can do it. It’s like taking something done by humans and having it done by a machine.”

You can continue to deny that Common Core equals straight indoctrination .... but, there are obviously many who disagree ... including teachers who support CC.
 
Texas_tea said:
That's not what the article is saying ....
“Now teachers aren’t as unique,” said Michael Warren, a public school history teacher in New Jersey. “It means anyone can do it. It’s like taking something done by humans and having it done by a machine.”

You can continue to deny that Common Core equals straight indoctrination .... but, there are obviously many who disagree ... including teachers who support CC.
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And you can continue to rail against a diversion. Its a free country... sort of.
 
Texas_tea said:
Please explain sort of .....
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Common Core is being used as a figurehead for political correctness in schools. Now its a standard tactic and can work but there has to be a degree of truth behind it. But there isnt. So its a diversion.
Its sort of a free country if you ignore the freedoms lost.
 
Backers of the Common Core Standards Initiative, which was created at the behest of the nation's governors and has since been enthusiastically backed by the Obama administration, say it is critical to ensuring all of the nation's middle and high school students meet a baseline in math and English. But while Common Core is not itself a curriculum, but a set of standardized tests, private curriculum producers are marketing their materials as "Common Core-aligned." Critics of Common Core say establishment of a national standard is simply a backdoor way of nationalizing curriculum.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/12/0...-more-than-scripts-to-read/?intcmp=latestnews
 
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So tex, based on that, where does the problem lie ? Is a baseline level of knowledge measurable nationwide (like the SAT) a bad thing or could it be the discretionary choices of those education administrators at the state and local level the source of the objuctional stories you post here ?
 
dogtowner said:
So tex, based on that, where does the problem lie ? Is a baseline level of knowledge measurable nationwide (like the SAT) a bad thing or could it be the discretionary choices of those education administrators at the state and local level the source of the objuctional stories you post here ?
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Both ....

Obviously it is discretionary choices of those education administrators at the state and local level. This Country does not need national standards for education. It, just like all other liberal policies, is good in theory but, in reality, it is never as it is intended.

The government is absolute corrupt and CC a backdoor way of nationalizing curriculum, which will lead to the government indoctrinating children on a national level.
 
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Texas_tea said:
Both ....

Obviously it is discretionary choices of those education administrators at the state and local level. This Country does not need national standards for education. It, just like all other liberal policies, is good in theory but, in reality, it is never as it is intended.

The government is absolute corrupt and CC a backdoor way of nationalizing curriculum, which will lead to the government indoctrinating children on a national level.
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Actually, America does benefit from an apples to apples way to judge the workforce of given areas. You may have noticed that companies based in other countries have been setting up operations here and they have always indicated frustration at just where to look to set up shop.They love right to work for obvious reasons, ditto low tax (these often coincide) but the last factor is will they have workers who have the language, math, science,etc skillsneeded to do their thing. Larger companies such as Toyota can afford to evaluate this on their own but its difficult for smaller concerns. There is logic behind crafting a means to measure education percormance. As competition for investment is intense in every governmental area its pretty understandablethe pols who all desire tax revenue from economic expansion will be looking for ways to create andpress advantages. Of course the individual education managers love pushing lib nonesense as they dont much care about creating tax revenue. But you know good and well pols love nkthing more than tax revenue as its their ability to kick cash to their political backers that allows them to not work for a living.
 
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