{"id":38738,"date":"2020-04-28T11:34:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38738"},"modified":"2020-04-28T11:34:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T15:34:16","slug":"most-parents-already-knew-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=38738","title":{"rendered":"Most Parents Already Knew This"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart<\/a> posted an article about a study released Monday by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute. The study shows the complete failure of the Common Core academic standards to educate American children.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,\u201d said<\/a>\u00a0Pioneer executive director Jim Stergios in a statement. \u201cThe proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative have much to answer for.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study, titled \u201cThe Common Core Debacle\u201d and authored by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber, asserts the \u201cshocking trends\u201d in American student performance in critical math and reading skills since the creation of the U.S. Education Department 40 years ago recommends reevaluation of federal involvement in education.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Performance in reading and math since the adoption of Common Core has especially declined in the nation\u2019s lowest-achieving students \u2013 many of whom come from low-income families and failing public schools \u2013 widening the achievement gap and creating further inequality.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Supporters of Common Core, however, touted<\/a> the Obama-era federally incentivized standards would be \u201crigorous\u201d and also \u201clevel the playing field.\u201d The Common Core State Standards Initiative boasted<\/a> that the standards are \u201cimportant\u201d because:<\/strong><\/p>\n

[h]igh standards that are consistent across states provide teachers, parents, and students with a set of clear expectations to ensure that all students have the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life upon graduation from high school, regardless of where they live. \u2026 The standards promote equity by ensuring all students are well prepared to collaborate and compete with their peers in the United States and abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rebarber observed, however, that while national fourth- and eighth-grade reading scores were rising at about half a point each year from 2003 to 2013,\u00a0since that time, reading scores have dropped<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the unintended consequences of Common Core is that many parents are getting involved in their children’s education after being alarmed at what they are being taught and what they are not being taught.<\/p>\n

The article notes:<\/p>\n

\u201cSeveral of us allied with Pioneer Institute have been pointing out, ever since it was introduced, the deeply flawed educational assumptions that permeate the Common Core and the many ways in which it is at odds with curriculum standards in top-achieving countries,\u201d Rebarber said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the wake of the Common Core \u201cdebacle,\u201d a national organization of parents has risen<\/a>\u00a0and is calling for an end to federal involvement in education and a return to policy-making at the local level.<\/strong><\/p>\n

United States Parents Involved in Education (USPIE) has produced\u00a0Truth and Lies in American Education<\/em>, a film focused on what the coalition of parents says is \u201cthe scheme behind the workforce development model of education and liberal indoctrination of children in government schools\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cThe sustained decline we\u2019re now seeing, especially among our most vulnerable students, simply cannot be allowed to continue,\u201d Rebarber also said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s time for federal law to change to allow states as well as local school districts to try a broader range of approaches to reform,\u201d he added. \u201cWith a more bottom-up approach, more school systems will have the opportunity to choose curricula consistent with our international competitors and many decades of research on effective classroom teaching.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s time for parents to take back their children’s education. Some of the states that claim to have removed Common Core have simply renamed it. Teach your children phonics,\u00a0 and teach them to ‘carry the one.’<\/p>\n

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