Thread: Education "Reform" : “Common Core” standards

The next time someone on TV cracks a joke about how stupid people are in the south, just remember.....
Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read...

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/03/...nity-colleges/

Seven Not-So-Fun Facts About the Costs of Public Education
posted at 4:39 pm on April 22, 2013 by Mike Antonucci

For many years we have expressed education expenditures as “per-pupil spending.” This is a reasonably good way to frame the numbers, though controversy sometimes arises over what is included and what isn’t. http://www.eiaonline.com/intercepts/...-stir-the-pot/ The following is a list of different angles on the same spending. All the figures cited are for 2010, courtesy of the National Center of Education Statistics, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Census Bureau.

1) Revenues collected by governments for public education in the United States totaled $593.7 billion. About $261.4 billion came from local sources, $258.2 billion from state sources, and $74 billion from federal sources.

2) That’s about $1,922 from each and every American.

3) Or $2,531 from each adult, 18 and older.

4) Or $4,567 from each non-farm American worker on a payroll.

5) That amounts to 11.4 percent of the average worker’s salary, or $2.20 per hour.

6) The average American employee thus works almost one hour every day to fund public schools.

7) It would take the entire salary of 14,842,500 employees to pay for U.S. public schools, equivalent to the entire retail trade workforce.

Public education advocates often speak of school spending as an investment. It’s clear that our portfolio is heavily weighted in the education sector. The shareholders are understandably upset by weak ROIs and incessant margin calls. No wonder they responded by downsizing.

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives...lic-education/

What happens when all focus is on "passing the Test" ...

New York City students flunk new Common Core-aligned tests; Bloomberg cheers
==> http://twitchy.com/2013/08/07/new-yo...omberg-cheers/

Stop Common Core!

Stop Common Core video of the day: 3 x 4 = 11
By Michelle Malkin • August 14, 2013 12:13 PM

Loyal readers know of my longtime crusade against fuzzy math/Everyday Math http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/28...wide-epidemic/ and Common Core educational corruption.

So this new video of an apparent teacher training session on Common Core math — in which the trainer explains how getting the wrong answer is right — will come as no surprise (via Stanley Kurtz): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCfg1...layer_embedded



The twisted pedagogy is the same in all of these curricular fads: Encourage “critical thinking” and “explaining” of “how and why” over time-tested, efficient methods of “drill and kill” first. Abandon memorization and computation for social justice, multiculturalism , and self-esteem.
http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/25...ay-mayan-math/ http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/30...-cant-do-math/

This cartoon I posted back in 2007 still says it all about constructivist, “strategy”-obsessed, non-math math:



http://michellemalkin.com/2013/08/14...-day-3-x-4-11/

Loyal readers know of my longtime crusade against fuzzy math/Everyday Math
http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/28...wide-epidemic/

MM's column this week covers the long-fought fuzzy math wars and the parental revolt against poisonous edu-fads. The Texas state school board voted before Thanksgiving to ditch the infamous “Everyday Math” textbook for third-graders. This is the faulty curriculum the NYC schools were forced to adopt despite an outcry from teachers and parents. It’s difficult to find a school district where this dumbed-down virus hasn’t infected the education bureaucracy. If you know of any, let me know. Here’s the article:

Fuzzy math: A nationwide epidemic
By Michelle Malkin • November 28, 2007 09:49 AM

Do you know what math curriculum your child is being taught? Are you worried that your third-grader hasn’t learned simple multiplication yet? Have you been befuddled by educational jargon such as “spiraling,” which is used to explain why your kid keeps bringing home the same insipid busywork of cutting, gluing and drawing? And are you alarmed by teachers who emphasize “self-confidence” over proficiency while their students fall further and further behind? Join the club.

Across the country, from New York City to Seattle, parents are wising up to math fads like “Everyday Math.” Sounds harmless enough, right? It’s cleverly marketed as a “University of Chicago” program. Impressive! Right? But then you start to sense something’s not adding up when your kid starts second grade and comes home with the same kindergarten-level addition and subtraction problems — for the second year in a row.

And then your child keeps telling you that the teacher isn’t really teaching anything, just handing out useless worksheets — some of which make no sense to parents with business degrees, medical degrees and Ph.D.s specializing in econometric analysis. And then you notice that it’s the University of Chicago education department, not the mathematics department, that is behind this nonsense.

And then you Google “Everyday Math” and discover that countless moms and dads just like you — and a few brave teachers with their heads screwed on straight — have had similarly horrifying experiences. Like the Illinois mom who found these “math” problems in the fifth-grade “Everyday Math” textbook:

A. If math were a color, it would be –, because –.
B. If it were a food, it would be –, because –.
C. If it were weather, it would be –, because –.

And then you realize your child has become a victim of “Fuzzy Math,” the “New New Math,” the dumbed-down, politically correct, euphemism-filled edu-folly corrupting both public and private schools nationwide.

1munch.jpg And then you feel like the subject of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” as you take on the seemingly futile task of waking up other parents and fighting the edu-cracy to restore a rigorous curriculum in your child’s classroom. New York City teacher Matthew Clavel described his frustration with “Everyday Math” in a 2003 article for City Journal:

“The curriculum’s failure was undeniable: Not one of my students knew his or her times tables, and few had mastered even the most basic operations; knowledge of multiplication and division was abysmal. . . . what would you do, if you discovered that none of your fourth-graders could correctly tell you the answer to four times eight?”

But don’t give up and don’t give in. While New York City remains wedded to “Everyday Math” (which became the mandated standard in 2003), the state of Texas just voted before Thanksgiving to drop the University of Chicago textbooks for third-graders. School board members lambasted the math program for failing to prepare students for college. It’s an important salvo in the math wars because Texas is one of the biggest markets for school textbooks. As Texas goes, so goes the nation.

Meanwhile, grass-roots groups such as Mathematically Correct (mathematicallycorrect.com) and Where’s The Math? (wheresthemath.com) are alerting parents to how their children are being used as educational guinea pigs. And teachers and math professionals who haven’t drunk the p.c. Kool-Aid are exposing the ruse. Nick Diaz, a Maryland educator, wrote a letter to his local paper:

“As a former math teacher in Frederick County Public Schools, I have a strong interest in the recent discussion of the problems with the math curriculum in our state and county. . . . The proponents of fuzzy math claim that the new approach provides a ‘deep conceptual understanding.’ Those words, however, hide the truth. Students today are not expected to master basic addition, subtraction and multiplication. These fundamental skills are necessary for a truly deep understanding of math, but fuzzy math advocates are masters at using vocabulary that sounds good to parents, but means something different to educators.”

Members of the West Puget Sound Chapter of the Washington Society of Professional Engineers also stepped forward in their community: http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2007/n...math-education

“For 35 years, we have been subjected to a failed experiment, ‘new math.’ Mathematics depends on individual problem-solving ability to arrive at the correct answer. Math does not lend itself to ‘fuzzy’ answers. The solution is to recognize the failure of the Constructivist Curriculum as it relates to mathematics and science, eliminate it and return to the hard core basics using texts like the Singapore Math.”

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A classic, anti-fad video from M.J. McDermott in Washington state: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=Tr1qee-bTZI


And check out Weapons of Math Destruction, a cartoon website dedicated to “peacefully disarming fuzzy math.” http://weaponsofmathdestruction.com You need a sense of humor to fight this crap. Otherwise, you’ll go mad:




Fuzzy math goes hand-in-hand with fuzzy reading. And the results show: It’s failing. This just in… http://www.breitbart.com/article.php...cle=1&catnum=0

U.S. fourth-graders have lost ground in reading ability compared with kids around the world, according to results of a global reading test.

Test results released Wednesday showed U.S. students, who took the test last year, scored about the same as they did in 2001, the last time the test was given—despite an increased emphasis on reading under the No Child Left Behind law.

Still, the U.S. average score on the Progress in International Reading Literacy test remained above the international average. Ten countries or jurisdictions, including Hong Kong and three Canadian provinces, were ahead of the United States this time. In 2001, only three countries were ahead of the United States.

The 2002 No Child Left Behind law requires schools to test students annually in reading and math, and imposes sanctions on schools that miss testing goals.

The U.S. performance on the international test of 45 nations or jurisdictions differed somewhat from results of a U.S. national reading test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the nation’s report card. Fourth-grade reading scores rose modestly on the most recent version of that test, taken earlier this year and measuring growth since 2005. During the previous two-year period, scores were flat.

On the latest international exam, U.S. students posted a lower average score than students in Russia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Luxembourg, Hungary, Italy and Sweden, along with the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.

Last time, Russia, Hong Kong and Singapore were behind the United States.

Hong Kong and Singapore have taken steps since then, such as increasing teacher preparation, providing more tutoring and raising public awareness about the importance of reading, said Ina Mullis, co- director of the International Study Center at Boston College, which conducts the international reading literacy study.

Abandon memorization and computation for social justice, multiculturalism , and self-esteem.

Stupid education fad of the day: “Mayan Math”
By Michelle Malkin • January 25, 2010 04:04 PM

Longtime readers of this blog are familiar with my critiques of Fuzzy Math, New Math, New New Math, Everyday Math, Chicago Math, and every other social justice-tainted effort by educrats to corrupt and undermine rigorous math education in this country.

Today’s stupid education fad of the day?

“Mayan Math.” I kid you not: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/jan/...chool-to-help/

Math has moved beyond numbers and formulas at Mesa School in Somis.

A group of sixth- and seventh-graders still crack open their textbooks and practice regular math skills most days. But once a week, they turn their math attention to history, culture and places far from Somis.

Teacher Jill Brody’s class started learning about Mayan math in September, part of the school’s efforts to incorporate “ethno-mathematics” into some of its classes.

Ethno-mathematics links math with culture. Some educators say it can help kids feel more connected to the subject and better understand the why and how behind the skills they learn in school.

“Math is not usually treated as a subject with a cultural context,” said Faviana Hirsch-Dubin, a former elementary school teacher and lecturer at UC Santa Barbara who is working with Mesa on the special math lessons. “Being able to feel some cultural connection to math or other subjects can enable students to feel more ownership of the subject matter.”

This is creepily similar to the idiotic “lattice multiplication” lessons in Everyday Math that justify using incoherent, inefficient methods of multiplying because that’s the way the ancient Egyptians did it. http://educationnext.org/anamazeingapproachtomath/

Once again, the educrats heap scorn on drill-and-kill, traditional rote methods because they’re too “narrow” and boring. God forbid we teach our children to compute without developing a social conscience first!

Ethno-mathematics is not the norm in public schools, said Hank Kepner, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, but it can be a powerful tool for getting kids motivated and engaged in math.

“It can help kids feel that they’re part of the mathematics world,” Kepner said. They learn where various math skills came from historically and the many different ways people have looked at math. “It’s sort of a motivation for kids to make sense of mathematics.”

In many schools, there’s too much emphasis on testing, Kepner said. Getting the right answer is important, but that’s too narrow. “Math isn’t just rote answers without understanding,” he said.

Perfect dogma in the Age of Obama: Feeling over facts. Cultural connection over competence. Diversity uber alles.

Johnny won’t be able to add. But he’ll be more ethno-mathematically correct than students from around the world.

Welcome to the Post-Accomplishment Generation.

http://michellemalkin.com/2010/01/25...ay-mayan-math/


Why Johnny can’t do math (Update: or English.)
By Michelle Malkin • June 30, 2008 07:40 AM


So, why can’t Johnny do math? Because Johnny’s teacher can’t even do fractions: http://www.usatoday.com/news/educati...ers-math_N.htm

For kids to do better in math, their teachers might have to go back to school.

Elementary-school teachers are poorly prepared by education schools to teach math, finds a study being released Thursday by the National Council on Teacher Quality.

Math relies heavily on cumulative knowledge, making the early years critical.

The study by the nonpartisan research and advocacy group comes a few months after a federal panel reported that U.S. students have widespread difficulty with fractions, a problem that arises in elementary school and prevents kids from mastering more complicated topics like algebra later on.

The report looked at 77 elementary education programs around the country, or roughly 5% of the institutions that offer undergraduate elementary teacher certification.

It found the programs, within colleges and universities, spend too little time on elementary math topics…

…Francis Fennell, the past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, said the report fails to examine the math instruction students receive while attending community colleges, where many elementary-school teachers start their higher education.

He also said the study’s authors should have surveyed teachers to get their views on how well prepared they were to teach math.

Fennell, who instructs teacher candidates in math at McDaniel College in Westminster, Md., said a common area of weakness among his students is fractions — the same subject the national math panel described as a weak area for kids.

“Part of the reason the kids don’t know it is because the teachers aren’t transmitting that,” he said.

Another part of the reason? Too many teachers are too busy bloviating about the self-esteem benefits of Everyday Math to bother with the basics. http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/28...wide-epidemic/

1 + 1 = I feel good about math, so who cares?

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UPDATE (See-Dubya): Meanwhile, English high school teachers want you to know that correct spelling counts, even if you’re having a grumpy day. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080630/...xam_expletives


http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/30...-cant-do-math/

Obama’s New Math Curriculum Gives Kids Points for Wrong Answers?!
by Fox News Insider August 19 2013

The White House is imposing what some are calling a controversial new curriculum called Common Core in schools across the country.

In a YouTube video, a curriculum coordinator in Chicago explains how through this new program students can actually get the answer wrong, but still receive full credit!

“Even if they said 3x4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer, really in words or in oral explanations […] but they just got the final number wrong, we’re really more focusing on the 'how' …”

Anna Kooiman asked whether this is a continuation of the “wussification” of America.

“This is not going to work in the real world if this child becomes a doctor and decides to operate on the wrong knee!”


Read more: http://foxnewsinsider.com/2013/08/19...#ixzz2cVWYNfI6

Do you want to drive on a bridge where the engineer "guessed" his calculations ?

Are they game? Michelle Malkin willing to debate Jeb Bush, NYT’s Bill Keller on Common Core ==> http://twitchy.com/2013/08/20/are-th...n-common-core/

Obama has sanctioned the new global educational reform called “Common Core,” a United Nations-friendly curriculum that will end freedom and success in America. The curriculum is based on the “humans cause climate change” lie that Al Gore and his ilk are perpetually peddling. If you disagree with this theory you are likened to a racist (which is their go-to rally cry). Did you hear, just this week, Al Gore was caught in another lie about climate change?!

Obama forced states to sign on to Common Core by dangling money in front of them at the worst possible economic moment, bribing them to sign on to his “Race to the Top” program and essentially nationalizing American education into his one world order, Agenda 21-influenced worldview.

Common Core is a socialism change agent that is beginning now, and it will hook the youngest members of our communities—our children—into the net of police state government.

It is not voluntary, and there is no way to opt-out.

YOU AND YOUR KIDS DON’T HAVE A CHOICE. Obama has decided what curriculum is right for you, and it is beginning now. We, here at Conservative-Daily, are learning very disturbing things about the Common Core program, and we’ll need your help to stop this dangerous curriculum before it is too late. We must get rid of Common Core before our kids turn into a nation of sheep.

Parents and teachers are being completely removed from the education process and the government is stepping in to take over. The Common Core program is being marketed by the administration as an innovative, wonderful educational curriculum that will advance the hearts and minds of American kids and put them in a position to be competitive with the rest of the education world.

Do not be fooled; it is anything but competitive. We have peered behind the curtain and you need to be aware of what we found. Start connecting the dots with us:

MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS ABOUT REDISTRIBUTION.

The Common Core program is all about control of another aspect of our economy and about indoctrinating our kids into believing that HIS AGENDA of socialism, equality and environmental justice. Our kids will not learn about the most moral financial system in the world, capitalism and free markets. No, they will learn that capitalists are ruining the planet and our atmosphere while destroying the world!

Kids are the first stop on the bus to changing America via Agenda 21. This is why the Common Core program is so intrusive and so skewed against American ideals. The Left needs to get ‘em young and get ‘em hooked on the idea of a government that takes care of every aspect of the lives and throughout adulthood.

Common Core lowers the academic standards for American kids and creates an “if it feels good, it’s okay” mentality. A Stanford professor says that Common Core will put American kids at least two years behind high-achieving countries in math. Kentucky did a Common Core pilot program and saw proficiency rates drop by 30 percent. This is probably because math doesn’t mean figuring out numbers and equations anymore, and there are no longer really any WRONG answers. It’s all about how you THINK AND FEEL about a problem. A Common Core video explains to teachers if a child comes to the conclusion that 3×4=11, it’s not necessarily WRONG, as long as that child can show you HOW they came up with that number and if the WAY makes any sense, the result is just not that important.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization has no business butting into the American education system. But, they are. Liberals want U.N. bureaucrats to build a curriculum for America that gets kids to welcome the state as adoptive parents. They need them to buy into an Agenda 21 sustainability mindset that teaches them that humans are harming the planet, Western civilization is bad, and one global, socialist society needs to rule the land in order to maintain peace and justice.

Common Core spends 8 weeks on the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights (teaching many classes through Scientology videos) that everyone has a right to social security, a job, housing and to join a union), and much less time on the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.

The curriculum demonizes capitalism and free markets (what’s left of it) of the United States by using math problems to tell our children that being rich is unfair and the rich are taking from the poor. We saw some of this hatred come out in 2012 when the Teacher’s Union released the video showing the rich urinating on the poor located below them!

And what is really alarming is that parents, educators, and legislators do not know they are getting our children into a deal with the devil! It takes away rights of states in control their own schools and districts. We are actually hearing that parents are not allowed to enter some schools, are not given their child’s textbooks as they are stored in class, and WILL NOT HAVE A LOCAL SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET WITH AND DISCUSS LOCALLY ISSUES AND CONCERNS.

President Obama and his radical friends are deconstructing our history and our culture by taking away the classics that teach right from wrong, individual responsibility and citizenship. No, our children are “Citizens of the World” and by now I hope you are connecting the dots on Communism, Socialism, and Marxism!

A history textbook ALREADY IN CLASSROOMS FOR SEVERAL YEARS spends pages upon pages on Islam without one chapter on Christianity or Judaism. Any mentions of Christianity’s past reference “massacres”, while Islamic history teaches of “takeovers” and speaks of how welcoming members of society were to Islam. The book states that Jesus “proclaimed” himself the Messiah, and Muhammed “was the prophet”. No “proclamation” there.

Your kids will be reading far fewer classic novels and more “information” texts such as government documents and technical manuals. They will read computer manuals and EPA white papers instead of traditional literature. Maybe even Obama’s “Dreams From My Father” will be required reading. U.S. education will now be controlled at the federal level. Parents, teachers and states will have no freedom to tailor lessons to their needs.

The curriculum will re-write history and teach that environmental concerns are the most important, and serving the state is an ultimate goal. But, beyond the lowered academic requirements, we are most concerned about the large database being gathered on our children.

Common Core requires extensive data to be kept on all children in a database called inBloom. It will store your student’s name, address, social security number, blood type, hair color, weight, test scores, nicknames, religion, attitudes, income level, medical history, psychological evaluations, bus stop times and political affiliation. Participation is mandatory, even for kids in private and home schools.

Let’s look at why the state could possibly need so much information on our kids. One word: control. From Kindergarten through their twenties, the “state” will make assessments on what type of student your child is, and what kind of job they are best suited for. Barack Obama and his socialist backers are going to restructure the United States so that everyone is told what their ability is and they will be working at a menial government job making menial government money and thinking the federal government would pick up the slack for their insurance, their housing, and their retirement.

This data collection conveniently ties back to the “Affordable Healthcare Act,” which AUTHORIZES FORCED FEDERAL VISITS TO YOUR HOME if the government deems you “high-risk.” If Common Core data on your kids designates them as “high risk,” the Health and Human Services’ website says the government can come to your home if you fall under the following “risky” categories:

*Families where mom is not yet 21.

*Families where someone is a tobacco user.

*Families where children have low student achievement, developmental delays, or disabilities.

*Kids living with individuals who are serving or formerly served in the armed forces, including such families that have members of the armed forces who have had multiple deployments outside the United States.

Constitutional attorney and author Kent Masterson Brown states, “This is not a ‘voluntary’ program. The eligible entity receiving the grant for performing the home visits is to identify the individuals to be visited and intervene so as to meet the improvement benchmarks. A homeschooling family, for instance, may be subject to “intervention” in “school readiness” and “social-emotional developmental indicators.” A farm family may be subject to “intervention” in order to “prevent child injuries.” The sky is the limit.

The government can acquire information like this through Common Core, Obamacare data collection, the NSA database, the FBI database or one of the other 70 databases on the American people. This information is already being used to take away our civil liberty as highlighted in many cases around the country. In New York, law abiding citizens are getting letters from the State Police telling them to turn over their guns or else! Or else, the State Police (SWAT outfitted) will come to their house and get them! And HIPAA is not here to protect you my friends. No, instead, this president is using it to take away any semblance of privacy we might have left – our personal health records.

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The main goal of the Privacy Rule is “…to assure that individuals’ health information is properly protected while allowing the flow of health information needed to provide and promote high quality healthcare and to PROTECT THE PUBLIC’S HEALTH AND WELL-BEING! There it is, the statement no one knew was in there BECAUSE IT WASN’T WRITTEN YET!

And, why in the world, is your family’s political affiliation being collected as part of the Common Core database? Will your political beliefs be used against your child? Will you endure a forced federal visit because you disagree with the current party in power? This is Big Brother if we have ever seen it! Everything you say and do is being collected by the government and can and will be used against you. They have already targeted conservatives through the IRS…now they are now coming for your kids via Common Core!

Is this the future we want for our most precious resource—our children? Parents and teachers are being completely removed from the education process and the government is stepping in to take over. Fax Congress right this minute and tell them to STOP COMMON CORE before it destroys the American culture and educational system!

Culturally, Common Core wants to mold our kids into dutiful little Leftists, using various bio-analysis tools. The “curriculum” calls for: “Four parallel streams of affective sensors” will be employed to effectively “measure” each child. The “facial expression camera,” for instance, “is a device that can be used to detect emotion…. Other devices, such as the “posture analysis seat,” “pressure mouse,” and “wireless skin conductance sensor,” which looks like a wide, black bracelet strapped to a child’s wrist, are all designed to collect “physiological response data from a biofeedback apparatus that measures blood volume, pulse, and galvanic skin response to examine student frustration.”

Common Core seeks to change behavior. One of the agencies responsible for testing is the American Institute for Research, or AIR. They are one of the largest behavioral and social science research organizations in the world, and are focused on CHANGING BEHAVIOR. AIR distributes LGBT propaganda to schools and believes not only in the sexualization of children, but in labeling and counseling those children at a very young age.

The documents state in black and white what will be taught: "Students need opportunities to engage in cooperative and active learning strategies, and sufficient time must be allocated for students to practice skills relating to sexuality education."

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This curriculum was developed behind closed doors and there are no meeting notes. Although they say it will be internationally benchmarked, there is no other country in the world that anyone can point to with a Common Core curriculum. But, working behind closed doors implementing, writing standards, are some of President Obama’s former friends and associates from back-in-the-day. Like one of the scariest people in education, Linda Darling-Hammond. Ms. Hammond may look like a Libertarian, but don’t let that fool you because she is one of the most radical, progressive educators you will ever meet. Hammond is a close associate and colleague of William, BILL AYERS, the former head of the terrorist group known as The Weather Underground. Bill is buddies with Obama, even threw Obama’s first fundraiser.

So the new code-words for redistribution of wealth are “your zip code”, as in “Your zip code should not determine your education. Your zip code should not define your job” or your whatever they want to fill-in-the-blank. The mission of Hammond’s work on the Committee for Equity and Excellence in education, was outlined in a report called, “A Strategy for Education Equity and Excellence.” This report tells you how this so-called educational reform is nothing more than another deception to re-distribute the wealth through education.

“The time has come for bold action by the states—and the federal government—to redesign and reform the funding of our nation’s public schools. Achieving equity and excellence requires sufficient resources that are distributed based on student need, not zip code, and that are efficiently used.”

This report goes on to make some incredible statements about our constitution. “We have, however, learned from past efforts and believe we are in a position to move forward. There is no constitutional barrier to a greater federal role in financing K-12 education. It is, rather, a question of our nation’s civic and political will; the modest federal contribution that today amounts to approximately 10 percent of national K-12 spending is a matter of custom, not a mandate. The federal government must take bold action in specific areas.”

FEDERAL CONTRIBUTION MEANS MORE TAXES LEAVING YOUR STATE AND LESS COMING BACK!

Ohio school superintendent Mick Zais, “the standards were adopted hastily by a select few and are a one-size-fits-all solution that won’t serve students well.”

Providence College English Literature Professor Anthony Esolen, “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.”

The Brookings Institution says, “The empirical evidence suggests that the Common Core will have little effect on American students' achievement."

A Heritage Foundation Issue Brief says, “Common Core's standards not only present a serious threat to state and local education authority, but also put academic quality at risk."

Federal agencies sharing our information or agents busting into our homes are both a violation of our Fourth Amendment rights. This administration is trashing our Constitution and ending our free society. Our kids will not know what it means to be free.

Will you get a visit from the feds this week? Don’t let Obama and the United Nations do this to our children and to our nation. Obama wants to get every child in America on the same page, at the same level, in the same way, and he wants to have them beholden to the State for the rest of their lives.

http://www.conservative-daily.com/20...the-classroom/