tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post3437495752180742384..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: Common Core TechniquesAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-72340891280123659762013-06-19T22:24:29.750-05:002013-06-19T22:24:29.750-05:00Heck, I just came from a preschool graduation and ...Heck, I just came from a preschool graduation and the skit my friend had all the kids doing was from a little book where a certain fish had particularly beautiful fins and they all wanted one...there's no happy ending until the fish gives a fin to everyone. The Director of the school is a good friend and I swear it was all I could do not to say "Teaching them socialism a bit early, aren't you!?" :-)<br /><br />Common Core...such irony in the name .. it's pretty darned COMMON.Zhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15989573357446569262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-70544439294979558572013-06-19T11:06:13.951-05:002013-06-19T11:06:13.951-05:00It is going to take a revolution in the mind set o...It is going to take a revolution in the mind set of the average American to save principles on which America was founded. We are like frong in the pot and they ruling class has been gradually raising the temperature for the last century. If you want the frogs to jump out of the pot, maybe you'll need to turn up the heat to "high".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-21942636311070828742013-06-19T08:04:58.311-05:002013-06-19T08:04:58.311-05:00Can't see how that leads to socialist indoctri...<i>Can't see how that leads to socialist indoctrination</i><br /><br />It's simple Duck...<br /><br />You teach the kids that there are people who "know" the answers, and obviate their need to "know themselves" the answers.<br /><br />So instead of giving the kids the source materials from which the answers come, you give them the teacher's crib sheets.<br /><br />Rilke was a great analyst of source material, Greek mythology, etc. But how are the kids supposed to recognize it if the kids are never taught the "myths" from which Rilke derived his analyses?<br /><br />Ninth grade. How about some Latin and Greek? How about an exercise in "translation"? How about some attempts at iambic pentameter instead of an analyses of the motivations of Eurydice?Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-77294499346923926562013-06-19T07:07:35.618-05:002013-06-19T07:07:35.618-05:00"Included on New York state’s suggested readi..."Included on New York state’s suggested reading list for ninth graders are Doris Lessing, Albert Camus and Rainer Maria Rilke."<br /><br />========<br />9th graders reading Rilke?<br />Can't see how that leads to socialist indoctrination.<br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-61390598932790299092013-06-19T05:51:27.404-05:002013-06-19T05:51:27.404-05:00From National Review:
The New York Times publishe...<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/350674/first-empirical-evidence-common-core-hurts-kentucky-students-maggie-gallagher" rel="nofollow">From <i>National Review</i></a>:<br /><br /><i>The New York Times published a wonderful op-ed by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreyfus acknowledging that Common Core is a radical experiment adopted with almost no public discussion and that it is fueling parents’ anxieties.<br /><br />They also note something I did not know: Kentucky adopted Common Core in 2010, and the results was a huge drop in students’ test scores:<br /><br /> Students in Kentucky were the first to undergo the Common Core’s testing regimen; the state adopted the standards in 2010. One year later, its students’ scores fell across the board by roughly a third in reading and math. Perhaps one cannot blame the students, or the teachers — who struggle to teach to the new, behemoth test that, in some cases, surpasses their curriculums — for the drop in scores.</i><br /><br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/opinion/sunday/the-common-core-whos-minding-the-schools.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0&pagewanted=print" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> is full op ed in the <i>NYT</i>.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.com