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Common Core

Table of Contents

Introduction

How it happened

Who is behind Common Core?

UNESCO

Agenda 21/Sustainable Development

The Usual Suspects

Bill Gates

Maurice Strong

London Conference on Eugenics

Experts say ...

Parents are saying

Data Mining

Videos

In their own words!

Take Action

Links & Resources

News & Updates

Common Core -

Still doesn't make the grade

   

States fighting back against CC - cursive writing article

  

  

  

Ze'ev Wurman re: The Common Core Math Standards

 Common Core takes the learning out of Education!

The standards will institutionalize mediocrity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

 

Dr. Sandra Stotsky

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

It is a deliberate effort at the "Dumbing down" of students.

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

 

"Charolette T. Iserbyt" was right ... they are trying to dumb down our kids

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

   

      

   

 

 

“Constructivism” (movie Agenda 21 for Dummies)  

 

movie agenda 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     

Growing Opposition from

"Both Sides"

  

 

CC is not a

Conservative /

Republican Issue ...

 

... or a

"Conservative

vs. Liberal"

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What do the Experts say?

Common Core does Not make the grade ...

Too Low Standards

State based standardization will be replaced with nationally based standardization which will be funded in full by the federal government. The long-term funding of CC is going to be done by the states. At the tune of $16 Billion to implement CC, it will be a financial back-breaker to every state that implements it.

"The Current School Reform Landscape"

Professor Christopher H. Tienken

"We need to foster creativity ..."

Anthony Esolen, English Literature Professor at Providence College in Rhode Island, stated:

“What appalls me the most about the
Common Core Standards is the cavalier contempt
for great works of human art,
thought and literary form.
We are not programming machines.
We are teaching children.
We are not producing functionaries, factory-like.
We are to be forming the minds and hearts
of men and women.
Frankly, I do not wish to be governed by people
whose minds and hearts have been stunted
by a strictly utilitarian misseducation.”
 

There was a validation team for math and a team for language arts. There was only one mathematician (Dr. Milgram) on a team … and a lot of “Stake holders” making the rest of the decisions.

Dr. Milgram wrote when he refused to sign off on the final standards:

“This is where the problem with these standards is most marked. While the difference between these standards and those of the top states at the end of eighth grade is perhaps somewhat more than one year. The difference is more like two years when compared to the expectations of the high achieving countries-particularly most of the nations of East Asia.”

  • Dr. Milgram – Stanford University and the only mathematician on the validation committee (he also refused to sign off on the final document). Testimonies

“The Validation Committee oversaw the development of the new National Core Standards, and as a result, I had considerable influence on the mathematics standards in the document. However, as is often the case, there was input from many other sources – including State Departments of Education – that had to be incorporated into the standards.

A number of these sources were mainly focused on things like making the standards as non-challenging as possible. Others were focused on making sure their favorite topics were present, and handled in the way they liked.”

  • “The special interest sources were focused on making the math standards as non-challenging as possible … The Core Mathematics Standards are written to reflect very low expectations.”

 

Common Core Standards  -  A step Forward or Backward         Read Article

  • Ze’ev Wurman: CC replaces the traditional foundations of Euclidean geometry with an experimental approach. This approach has never been successfully used in any sizable system; in fact, it failed even in the school for gifted and talented students in Moscow, where it was originally invented. Yet, Common Core effectively imposes this experimental approach on the entire country, without any piloting.
Ze'ev Wurman
"The Common Core
Math Standards
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  • Ze’ev Wurman also states that most CC math proficianceis are 1-2 years behind high performing states and other international competitors.
  • Dr. Sandra Stotsky – ELA Validation Committee – She also refused to sign off on all the final standards. She rates the CC ELA standards a “D”
  • Common Core’s “college-readiness’ standards for ELA and reading are simply empty sets.
  • Common Core's “college-readiness” may be about the grade 7 level.
  • As admitted by one of the creators of Common Core, Dr. Jason Zimba, at a meeting of the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education in March 2010, Common Core defines “college-readiness’ as ready for a nonselective community college, not a four-year university.
  • Common Core expects English teachers to spend over 50 percent of their reading instructional time on nonfiction and informational texts such as seminal U.S. political documents, court decisions, and scientific and technical manuals.
"The standards
do not signify readiness
for authentic
college-ready work.
At best they point to a readiness for a
high school diploma ...
and they are not
college bench-marked ...
not competitive."

Stotsky testified

Dr. Sandra Stotsky - Professor of Education (University of Arkansas), at the Reform, testifying before the Texas House of Representatives Committee on State Sovereignty. She addresses issues related to the Common Core State Standards and related assessments (Video)

Stotsky was in charge of developing the outstanding academic curriculum frameworks in Massachusetts in the 1990s. She served on one of the committees that participated in the shaping of the Common Core and certainly believes in standards and testing. She is now one of the most outspoken critics of Common Core.

In this Article, she explains shy. She believes that the insistence on one-size-fits-all will lower standards, not raise them.(source)

 

Dr. Sandra Stotsky - Professor of Education (University of Arkansas) at the Reform  Testifying before the Texas House of Representatives Committee on State Sovereignty. She addresses issues related to the Common Core State Standards and related assessments

(Video)

Pt. 1 4/14/11

"The standards do not signify readiness for authentic college ready work. at best they point to a readiness for a high school diploma ... and they are not college benchmark ... not competitive."

Pt. 2 4/14/11  On concern with the "lack of Transparency" Video

"Common Core is not nationally bench-marked."  "Where were the international benchmarks & ___ "

Re: the testing constortia. heavy info about min 6:30.

Mentions Duncan, Hammond, and others and contracts/money.

Another Video

Stotsky @ min. 34

Milgram @ 44-46.5 (3/20/13)

She is now one of the most outspoken critics of Common Core.

In this Article, she explains shy. She believes that the insistence on one-size-fits-all will lower standards, not raise them.  (source)

Astonishing. We've been duped by the proponents of Common Core. We've got to get this disastrous thing stopped. Our children not only deserve better, they're legally entitled to in matters of education.

Public Comment Draft: Stotsky wasn't allowed to see it.

   

Indoctrination and "Dumbing Down" of Students - It's Deliberate

You may be asking,

“How do people who are perpetrating these things (Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development) expect to do this and make it last?”

The answer to that is that you steal a generation of children and indoctrinate them so they accept these ideas and become global citizens in the coming global village.

The entire purpose of 2nd grade social studies is to transfer loyalty from the family to the government and teach them about sustainable economic consumption (and social activism).

Right there prominently written on their own "About ESD" page it says:
"In its 57th meeting in December 2002, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, 2005- 2014,  (DESD) 'emphasizing that education is an indispensable element for achieving sustainable development'. It also designated UNESCO as the lead agency to promote and implement the Decade.
DESD (Decade of Education for Sustainable Development)

Our children are mathematically illiterate on purpose. How do I know on purpose? Why isn’t this just "a basic bad idea"? Their "Sustainable Development" plan tells us so in their own "Toolkit". (Education for Sustainable Development Toolkit).

"Generally, more highly educated people who have higher incomes,
consume more resources
that poorly educated people, who tent to have lower incomes.
In this case, more education increases the threat of sustainability."

Charlotte Iserbyt has been saying for years that the dumbing down is real.            Watch skull movie

It isn’t just a natural consequence of a bad idea.

 Her book, "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"

In a missive to fellow researchers, Charlotte Iserbyt, former Senior Policy advisor in Reagan's Education Department, and author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America, had this to say,

The Secret History of Western Education The Scientific Destruction of Minds - 3/5

Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt served as the head of policy at the Department of Education during the first administration of Ronald Reagan

"I want to warn all the wonderful people fighting Communist Core that should they win this battle, their victory may be hollow, since these evil people always have not just one, but many substitute options up their sleeves to offer us, clearly disguised as something they know we will accept. They know that CC is exactly what they have been doing to our children since the seventies at least. The only difference is, they have decided to be open about it now. They have the technology to implement both the curriculum, assessment, and the ability to share data worldwide, to health care agencies, juvenile programs, corporations, etc. All the components have finally merged for the institutionalization of lifelong learning, under the umbrella of the unelected school board. This is most dangerous! The focus on Marxist curriculum, its standards, outcomes, goals, objectives, behaviors, dispositions, psychological Marxist assessment, etc., all have been with us for many years."

Do you see what this is? The goal of this rotten government control of all education is about eliminating any and all private, religious, or homeschooled education. With one cent of tax money going to a private, religious, or home schooled child, comes all the regulations and control of the federal government!

 

 

   

 

Constructivism

    The new “Connected Mathematics” Min: 6:54 Standard 3 Mathematics as Reasoning tells us,

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“Constructivism”;

“… students construct [their own] understandings of reality, and [realize] that objective reality is not knowable.” P.10.

So Why bother? The truth is, the truth which keep men free is being suppressed in order to prop up the attitude training agenda. And it moves on …not sure if this video is a good idea

"Constructivist Learning Theory"

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“Through discussing the problems and their solutions, the students are learning to reason about the mathematics. They learn that mathematics is man-made, that it is arbitrary, and good solutions are arrived at by consensus among those who are considered expert. Min. 6:38

Most of us assume that 2 + 2 is always going to = 4. You’re wrong … we might reach a new concensus.  How well does it work? Well, they tell you in the book “Getting to know Connected Mathematics”. In the teacher’s guide in the back (P.84) it tells us that ...

“Because the curriculum does not emphasize arithmetic computations done by hand, some CMP students may not do as well on tests assessing computational skills … We believe such a trade-off in favor of CMO is very much to students’ advantage in … the world of work.”

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Growing opposition from both sides of the political spectrum.

Lest anyone think that opposition to Common Core is strictly a conservative or Republican issue, there is ample evidence that opposition is growing from both the left and the right side of the political spectrum.

Dr. Horton on Corporate collusion in Education (a liberal, speaking sceptically about Common Core)

Paul Horton, a liberal teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory School and a self-proclaimed liberal, is featured in a video which serves as a stunning indictment of Common Core, both as an intrusion in the relationship between teachers and students as well as how the data mining aspect of the Common Core assessments serves governmental and corporate interests at the expense of privacy. He speaks of Bill Gates and big corporations chosing the education for our kids instead of what the parents believe is best.

Dr. Horton on Corporate collusion in Education (a liberal, speaking sceptically about Common Core)

How it isn't a conservative, liberal issue. See minute 43:35.

There are two dangers with corporations in a government that's based on a free market. " "Bill Gates seems like he's very benovelent in his foundation and they do a lot of good things in the world but, Bill Gates really wantes large new markets in schools and so the problem here is not a carte blanche critique of corporations. The problem is when you have certain corporations pushing an agenda that serves to profit corporations at the expense of kids learning, the question we need to be asking is "What is the best learning we can offer our kids?" Is the best thing we can offer our kids what these corporations are offering? Or is it what we as parents, or what we as teachers can offer?"

   

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More Opposition -

 

Indoctrination in Public Schools


A tough critique of Common Core on early childhood education "It appears that early childhood teachers and child development experts were excluded from the K-3 standards-writing process."

 The Effect of the Common Core Standards on Teachers and the Teaching Profession

 Legal Analysis of Social Studies Standards Decision

BUILDING THE MACHINE - The Common Core Documentary minute 21:10 This curriculum isn't enough for major colleges or STEM