Common core roots lie in ties between barack obama, bill ayers

[JakeStarkey]

STEM, to vigilante, has something to with tomatoes.

 

[Mojo2]

this is the Feds stepping over STATES RIGHTS

people need to wake to this administration...some states are already voting to get out of it

just like the school lunches the pushed on schools..many are opting of it too because they were LOSING money and employees because of it

We need to repeal everything this man and his comrades has done while in office

Nonsense.

Common Core Standards was funded by the governors and state schools chiefs of 44 states, mostly red states, with additional support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Pearson Publishing Company, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation.

How one extracts a political agenda from the creation of math and English goals and standards takes a huge stretch of the imagination.

You do a good job of blurring the line between propagandist and dope.

Frmr. Gov. Janet (Big Sis) Napolitano (D) was the governor who led the way toward creating and implementing this federal government intrusion into the kid's educational curriculum and ed standards.

The Dems LOVE bringing the Fed govt. in where it doesn't belong.

Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal School Curriculum
Mary Grabar — September 21, 2012

Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes:

A national curriculum called Common Core

Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats

A leveling of all schools to one, low national standard, and a redistribution of education funds among school districts

An effective federal tracking of all students

The loss of the option of avoiding the national curriculum and tests through private school and home school​

Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama’s community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda Darling-Hammond, a radical left-wing educator and close colleague of William “Bill” Ayers, the former leader of the communist terrorist Weather Underground who became a professor of education and friend of Obama’s.

When these dangerous initiatives are implemented, there will be no escaping bad schools and a radical curriculum by moving to a good suburb, or by home schooling, or by enrolling your children in private schools.

How was it that 48 governors entered Race-to-the-Top without knowing outcomes?

It was one of the many “crises” exploited by the Obama administration. While the public was focused on a series of radical moves coming in rapid-fire succession, like the health care bill and proposed trials and imprisonment of 9/11 terrorists on domestic soil, governors, worried about keeping school doors open, signed on. Many politicians and pundits praised Obama on this singular issue, repeating the official rhetoric about raising standards.

It stands to reason, though, that education policies would be consistent with Obama’s agenda. After all, one of his most controversial associations, highlighted during the 2008 presidential campaign, was with an education professor,

Bill Ayers. As a terrorist, he and his wife, Bernardine Dohrn, had dedicated their Prairie Fire Manifesto to Sirhan Sirhan, the convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy.

It was for this reason that Kennedy’s son, Christopher Kennedy, chairman of the University of Illinois board of trustees, voted against bestowing “professor emeritus” status on Ayers after he retired. “I intend to vote against conferring the honorific title of our university whose body of work includes a book dedicated in part to the man who murdered my father, Robert F. Kennedy,” he said.

Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama?s Federal School Curriculum

 

[Mojo2]

Jeb Bush Thinks He Knows What Common Core Critics Are Really Worried About


Mar. 25, 2014 6:30pm Fred Lucas

Bush’s staunch support for Common Core comes as many of the 45 states that adopted the K-12 math and English standards have either rejected them or are looking at making changes to implementation.

Jeb Bush Thinks He Knows What Common Core Critics Are Really Worried About | TheBlaze.com

 

[Flopper]

You do a good job of blurring the line between propagandist and dope.

Frmr. Gov. Janet (Big Sis) Napolitano (D) was the governor who led the way toward creating and implementing this federal government intrusion into the kid's educational curriculum and ed standards.

The Dems LOVE bringing the Fed govt. in where it doesn't belong.

So what does this have to do with Common Core? Common Core is not funded by the federal government. Most of it's funding comes from the 44 states in the consortium and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create Math and English standards. There are reason to oppose Common Core standards but you haven't hit upon any of them.

 

[Mojo2]

You do a good job of blurring the line between propagandist and dope.

Frmr. Gov. Janet (Big Sis) Napolitano (D) was the governor who led the way toward creating and implementing this federal government intrusion into the kid's educational curriculum and ed standards.

The Dems LOVE bringing the Fed govt. in where it doesn't belong.

So what does this have to do with Common Core? Common Core is not funded by the federal government. Most of it's funding comes from the 44 states in the consortium and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create Math and English standards. There are reason to oppose Common Core standards but you haven't hit upon any of them.

WTF, you want to spar with me or play games with me?

Just post the damn information for the sake of knowledge and enlightenment for the edification of our Community.

This one and the larger one, you loon!

No wonder you love Obama!

 

[initforme]

What is even more hypocritical is now those that live and die by test scores don't want standards now? What exactly do they want? They want the states to keep their own standards now after all the whining and crying about higher standards? They can't help themselves but look for excuses. If you say no that's fine. But then develop standards of your own again surrendering your current pay for those of a teacher, which won't amount to much.

 

[Flopper]

You do a good job of blurring the line between propagandist and dope.

Frmr. Gov. Janet (Big Sis) Napolitano (D) was the governor who led the way toward creating and implementing this federal government intrusion into the kid's educational curriculum and ed standards.

The Dems LOVE bringing the Fed govt. in where it doesn't belong.

So what does this have to do with Common Core? Common Core is not funded by the federal government. Most of it's funding comes from the 44 states in the consortium and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to create Math and English standards. There are reason to oppose Common Core standards but you haven't hit upon any of them.

WTF, you want to spar with me or play games with me?

Just post the damn information for the sake of knowledge and enlightenment for the edification of our Community.

This one and the larger one, you loon!

No wonder you love Obama!

I don't reply to generalized off topics posts. How about either discussing the topic or finding some other place to rant.

 

[Flopper]

What is even more hypocritical is now those that live and die by test scores don't want standards now? What exactly do they want? They want the states to keep their own standards now after all the whining and crying about higher standards? They can't help themselves but look for excuses. If you say no that's fine. But then develop standards of your own again surrendering your current pay for those of a teacher, which won't amount to much.

Now that 45 states have approved the common core standard and state and district educators are looking at textbook adoption, teacher resources and guides, teachers and parents are realizing that common core is not going to be an easy task to implement.

Teachers complain the program was pushed through too fast, that there wasn't time for schools to make the adjustment, there wasn't additional funding available for new textbooks, and that they just weren't included in the process when the Common Core was created.

Parents are complaining that the standards encourage educators to push students to hard without providing the support they need. Others claim the standards dumb down the child's education.

The purpose of the standards was to create the requirements needed to prepare kids for college or other post k-12 education so regardless of where a child attends high school, they will have covered the material that their respective school requires. In some schools, classes will go well beyond the standards and in other they'll struggle to keep up. What no one knows is how much of a real improvement the new standards will be.

 

[Ava]

Parents need to rise up over this

It's horrible what Obama and his comrades in arms have done while he has been in office

And Jeb Bush supports Common Core, too.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a vocal advocate for the Common Core State Standards Initiative, reportedly accused the program’s critics of prioritizing children’s self-esteem over learning.

Jeb Bush Thinks He Knows What Common Core Critics Are Really Worried About | TheBlaze.com



More on Common Core:

 

[Flopper]

Parents need to rise up over this

It's horrible what Obama and his comrades in arms have done while he has been in office

And Jeb Bush supports Common Core, too.

Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, a vocal advocate for the Common Core State Standards Initiative, reportedly accused the program’s critics of prioritizing children’s self-esteem over learning.

Jeb Bush Thinks He Knows What Common Core Critics Are Really Worried About | TheBlaze.com



More on Common Core:

I find it amazing that conservatives are not eagerly supporting Common Core. For decades, conservatives have fought to hold students accountable for high standards and an academic curriculum imbued with great works of Western civilization and the American republic. These are standards that improve education, funded and created by the states, not the federal government. Although endorsed by Obama, the program was underway well before he took office.

I can only conclude that for some conservatives, if Obama is for it, we're against it.

 

[flacaltenn]

A lot has been blamed on Common Core.. And I kinda sympathize with the States who have to dodge all the crap that comes from Dept of Ed in D.C. --- BUT ---

1) It is in the interests of the STATES to establish common standards amongst themselves VOLUNTARILY to make teacher and student migration easier.. And to establish a better leveraged market in the buying of textbooks and materials.. Rather than having to negotiate individually.

2) The role of the Dept of Ed has NEVER really been defined. If the left doesn't like COMMON TESTING, how the HELL is the DoEd supposed to do anything to establish where the problems are? And if the Right doesn't like curriculum standards -- that WHAT THE FREAK IS their role?? BOTH sides have no use for Federal intervention.

3) I've got no problem with Common Core as it is DOCUMENTED. I've actually read (by grade level) the STANDARDS that they are promoting and there is NOTHING controversial about it. Try it -- Go to the Common COre website and pull me out something you are OUTRAGED over..

4) The REAL ENEMY are the teaching Colleges. Where all the REAL horseshit is hatched. New memes in mathematics that DOOM kids to failure and assure they will NEVER survive Algebra 1 or Calculus. Because some egghead didn't like the elitism of the word "equation" and banned it to hell and replaced it with "number sentences" so as not to intimidate those kids who are afraid to think..

 

[Stephanie]

Parents need to rise up over this

It's horrible what Obama and his comrades in arms have done while he has been in office

Please God, don't let Stephanie become a parent

Based on your posts she could say:

Please God, don't let crack addicts become parents.

But she'd be too late because, sadly, here you are.

I have two grown sons, one a father of two of my grandchildren and one has my great child.. and they act more adult than wry and quite few others here on the board...But I instilled in them manners, honor, respect...They would never stoop so low to say something to Wry that he did to me...but some people are so miserable from all the hate they have inside...You can only pity someone like that and it was all over Politics

 

[Stephanie]

This is what I was talking about
Links in article at site

SNIP:
COMMON CORE: GROWING FRACTURE BETWEEN TEACHERS' UNIONS AND STATE SCHOOL CHIEFS


by DR. SUSAN BERRY 8 Apr 2014, 12:34 PM PDT 13 POST A COMMENT

An elite Washington education policy group has conducted an anonymous survey of influential education insiders to provide strategic support to stakeholders in the current Common Core debate.

Whiteboard Advisors state their April 2014 survey contains the views of unidentified education policy “insiders,” including:
Current and former White House and U.S. Department of Education leaders;
Current and former Congressional staff;

State education leaders, including state school chiefs and former governors; and
Leaders of major education organizations, think tanks, and other key influentials
In the group’s publication, titled Education Insider: Gainful Employment Regulation, Race To The Top Standings, Bobby Scott Leadership Implications, Chiefs v. Unions, Whiteboard Advisors asked their education insiders the following question:

During the recent CCSSO [Council of Chief State School Officers] annual legislative conference, leaders of the AFT [American Federation of Teachers] and NEA [National Education Association] argued with state chiefs over the public perception and implementation of the Common Core. Massachusetts Commissioner Mitchell Chester stated that the two unions seemed to be "condoning" the behavior of Common Core opponents "at the peril" of teachers who are moving things ahead. Why the shift in tone toward the unions now?
Historically, the CCSSO, along with the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and nonprofit progressive education company Achieve Inc., developed the Common Core standards. The CCSSO and the NGA own the copyrights to the standards.
The insiders’ responses to the Whiteboard Advisors’ question are below:

“There was no shift.”
“I think everyone is cooling on Common Core.”
“The unions came out against the Common Core in a pretty unhelpful way asking to delay implementation and punt on accountability. This question is too leading a question.”
“Extensive union survey research indicates that the CCSS are losing support of rank and file teachers. The unions support the CCSS and believe that poor implementation is putting them in jeopardy.”
“There’s no right or wrong here. The unions need to play a more constructive role in helping ensure teachers are well prepared to teach to CCSS vs. play the ‘alarmist’ role. On the other hand, the chiefs and the agencies they run have a long history of lacking capacity and an inability to help districts transform practice. But, they must first create a policy structure that looks a lot differently than it does today.”
“Accountability (at a school and teacher level) is starting to get real.”

[sic] The reform community made the mistake of thinking "this time" the unions would be different. So Foundations gave them money. Duncan met with them monthly and also tilted RTT [Race to the Top] scoring to states that secured union support. They were involved in the drafting and validation of Common Core. But they were never serious about support. Their playbook is to call for pauses, delays, and other tactics to run out the clock. They would rather criticize implementation than help.”

“If the unions don’t want any accountability, what better way to reduce or remove it than to use Common Core implementation as an opportunity to get rid of teacher evaluations. Moratoriums are a slippery slope and can (and in some cases quite possibly will) be extended indefinitely. [sic]
“Because people in leadership roles are long-time teachers who fear evaluations and consequences.”
“It’s not the unions themselves—it’s their leaders. CCSSO has been forced to address the increasing strident rhetoric used by union leadership who are looking for scapegoats if this all goes wrong.”

“Do you really have to ask? As with all major reforms, including especially NCLB, the unions take the money, sorta acquiesce to the policy, wait to see if there’s any enduring power in the reform, and then pounce to kill it if it ever pinches or requires change or improvement. All this moaning of "needed time," "needed resources," "poor implementation," etc. is just part of an old script that gets read out and sold with the tens of millions of dollars these people spend to hoodwink the public to their side. All these policies could be made to work well if these educrats wanted to do so and had the good will to do so. They don’t; the public isn’t engaged; and we are headed backwards, not forward.”

ALL of it here
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Govern...Unions-And-State-School-Chiefs-On-Common-Core

 

[Mojo2]

This is what I was talking about
Links in article at site

SNIP:
COMMON CORE: GROWING FRACTURE BETWEEN TEACHERS' UNIONS AND STATE SCHOOL CHIEFS


by DR. SUSAN BERRY 8 Apr 2014, 12:34 PM PDT 13 POST A COMMENT

An elite Washington education policy group has conducted an anonymous survey of influential education insiders to provide strategic support to stakeholders in the current Common Core debate.

Whiteboard Advisors state their April 2014 survey contains the views of unidentified education policy “insiders,” including:
Current and former White House and U.S. Department of Education leaders;
Current and former Congressional staff;

State education leaders, including state school chiefs and former governors; and
Leaders of major education organizations, think tanks, and other key influentials
In the group’s publication, titled Education Insider: Gainful Employment Regulation, Race To The Top Standings, Bobby Scott Leadership Implications, Chiefs v. Unions, Whiteboard Advisors asked their education insiders the following question:

During the recent CCSSO [Council of Chief State School Officers] annual legislative conference, leaders of the AFT [American Federation of Teachers] and NEA [National Education Association] argued with state chiefs over the public perception and implementation of the Common Core. Massachusetts Commissioner Mitchell Chester stated that the two unions seemed to be "condoning" the behavior of Common Core opponents "at the peril" of teachers who are moving things ahead. Why the shift in tone toward the unions now?
Historically, the CCSSO, along with the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and nonprofit progressive education company Achieve Inc., developed the Common Core standards. The CCSSO and the NGA own the copyrights to the standards.
The insiders’ responses to the Whiteboard Advisors’ question are below:

“There was no shift.”
“I think everyone is cooling on Common Core.”
“The unions came out against the Common Core in a pretty unhelpful way asking to delay implementation and punt on accountability. This question is too leading a question.”
“Extensive union survey research indicates that the CCSS are losing support of rank and file teachers. The unions support the CCSS and believe that poor implementation is putting them in jeopardy.”
“There’s no right or wrong here. The unions need to play a more constructive role in helping ensure teachers are well prepared to teach to CCSS vs. play the ‘alarmist’ role. On the other hand, the chiefs and the agencies they run have a long history of lacking capacity and an inability to help districts transform practice. But, they must first create a policy structure that looks a lot differently than it does today.”
“Accountability (at a school and teacher level) is starting to get real.”

[sic] The reform community made the mistake of thinking "this time" the unions would be different. So Foundations gave them money. Duncan met with them monthly and also tilted RTT [Race to the Top] scoring to states that secured union support. They were involved in the drafting and validation of Common Core. But they were never serious about support. Their playbook is to call for pauses, delays, and other tactics to run out the clock. They would rather criticize implementation than help.”

“If the unions don’t want any accountability, what better way to reduce or remove it than to use Common Core implementation as an opportunity to get rid of teacher evaluations. Moratoriums are a slippery slope and can (and in some cases quite possibly will) be extended indefinitely. [sic]
“Because people in leadership roles are long-time teachers who fear evaluations and consequences.”
“It’s not the unions themselves—it’s their leaders. CCSSO has been forced to address the increasing strident rhetoric used by union leadership who are looking for scapegoats if this all goes wrong.”

“Do you really have to ask? As with all major reforms, including especially NCLB, the unions take the money, sorta acquiesce to the policy, wait to see if there’s any enduring power in the reform, and then pounce to kill it if it ever pinches or requires change or improvement. All this moaning of "needed time," "needed resources," "poor implementation," etc. is just part of an old script that gets read out and sold with the tens of millions of dollars these people spend to hoodwink the public to their side. All these policies could be made to work well if these educrats wanted to do so and had the good will to do so. They don’t; the public isn’t engaged; and we are headed backwards, not forward.”

ALL of it here
Common Core: Growing Fracture Between Teachers' Unions and State School Chiefs

Great article!

 

[Flopper]

This is what I was talking about
Links in article at site

SNIP:
COMMON CORE: GROWING FRACTURE BETWEEN TEACHERS' UNIONS AND STATE SCHOOL CHIEFS


by DR. SUSAN BERRY 8 Apr 2014, 12:34 PM PDT 13 POST A COMMENT

An elite Washington education policy group has conducted an anonymous survey of influential education insiders to provide strategic support to stakeholders in the current Common Core debate.

Whiteboard Advisors state their April 2014 survey contains the views of unidentified education policy “insiders,” including:
Current and former White House and U.S. Department of Education leaders;
Current and former Congressional staff;

State education leaders, including state school chiefs and former governors; and
Leaders of major education organizations, think tanks, and other key influentials
In the group’s publication, titled Education Insider: Gainful Employment Regulation, Race To The Top Standings, Bobby Scott Leadership Implications, Chiefs v. Unions, Whiteboard Advisors asked their education insiders the following question:

During the recent CCSSO [Council of Chief State School Officers] annual legislative conference, leaders of the AFT [American Federation of Teachers] and NEA [National Education Association] argued with state chiefs over the public perception and implementation of the Common Core. Massachusetts Commissioner Mitchell Chester stated that the two unions seemed to be "condoning" the behavior of Common Core opponents "at the peril" of teachers who are moving things ahead. Why the shift in tone toward the unions now?
Historically, the CCSSO, along with the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and nonprofit progressive education company Achieve Inc., developed the Common Core standards. The CCSSO and the NGA own the copyrights to the standards.
The insiders’ responses to the Whiteboard Advisors’ question are below:

“There was no shift.”
“I think everyone is cooling on Common Core.”
“The unions came out against the Common Core in a pretty unhelpful way asking to delay implementation and punt on accountability. This question is too leading a question.”
“Extensive union survey research indicates that the CCSS are losing support of rank and file teachers. The unions support the CCSS and believe that poor implementation is putting them in jeopardy.”
“There’s no right or wrong here. The unions need to play a more constructive role in helping ensure teachers are well prepared to teach to CCSS vs. play the ‘alarmist’ role. On the other hand, the chiefs and the agencies they run have a long history of lacking capacity and an inability to help districts transform practice. But, they must first create a policy structure that looks a lot differently than it does today.”
“Accountability (at a school and teacher level) is starting to get real.”

[sic] The reform community made the mistake of thinking "this time" the unions would be different. So Foundations gave them money. Duncan met with them monthly and also tilted RTT [Race to the Top] scoring to states that secured union support. They were involved in the drafting and validation of Common Core. But they were never serious about support. Their playbook is to call for pauses, delays, and other tactics to run out the clock. They would rather criticize implementation than help.”

“If the unions don’t want any accountability, what better way to reduce or remove it than to use Common Core implementation as an opportunity to get rid of teacher evaluations. Moratoriums are a slippery slope and can (and in some cases quite possibly will) be extended indefinitely. [sic]
“Because people in leadership roles are long-time teachers who fear evaluations and consequences.”
“It’s not the unions themselves—it’s their leaders. CCSSO has been forced to address the increasing strident rhetoric used by union leadership who are looking for scapegoats if this all goes wrong.”

“Do you really have to ask? As with all major reforms, including especially NCLB, the unions take the money, sorta acquiesce to the policy, wait to see if there’s any enduring power in the reform, and then pounce to kill it if it ever pinches or requires change or improvement. All this moaning of "needed time," "needed resources," "poor implementation," etc. is just part of an old script that gets read out and sold with the tens of millions of dollars these people spend to hoodwink the public to their side. All these policies could be made to work well if these educrats wanted to do so and had the good will to do so. They don’t; the public isn’t engaged; and we are headed backwards, not forward.”

ALL of it here
Common Core: Growing Fracture Between Teachers' Unions and State School Chiefs

Common Core is nothing more than a set of standards for math and English for grades K-12. The standards are broken down into topics by grade level, enumerating the specific goals to be accomplished. Teachers and curriculum specialist are left with the decision as how the standards are to met. Once implemented it will provide kids with a far better foundation for college, regardless where they attend. It will provide colleges with what's needed to construct curriculum that makes sense for incoming freshmen. Lastly it will provide better and cheaper text books and classroom material.

There is no political agenda, yet the media attempt to create one. There is no federal involvement yet conservatives fear the hand of the federal government is in it. Local school boards fear additional costs, yet these standards when implemented will substantial reduce cost. Teachers and unions are outraged because they were not involved and fear what it will mean in the classroom. Parents fear the standards will set the bar to high or too low.

However, what all this boils down to is the fear of change. A fear that has sent dozens educational initiates down the bureaucratic rat hole insuring America's continued decline in education compared to other nations.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Common core roots lie in ties between barack obama, bill ayers

Common Core is a descendant of the Bush education reform years as Governor in Texas in the nineties

 

[Moonglow]

this is the Feds stepping over STATES RIGHTS

people need to wake to this administration...some states are already voting to get out of it

just like the school lunches the pushed on schools..many are opting of it too because they were LOSING money and employees because of it

We need to repeal everything this man and his comrades has done while in office

While trying to read this, I noticed you have a hard time with the English language...