George Rebane
More test scores keep rolling in telling those paying attention what our educational systems have done to the newest generation of America's students – and it isn’t pretty. The only ones still genuflecting to our union dominated public schools are the nation’s progressives (including our local lefties) who dare not let light shine on the truth for fear (completely substantiated) that it blows up their social narrative.
In the meantime PJ Media reports ‘Common Core: ACT Scores for Class of 2018 Worst in Decades’. Bottom line – our students’ scores in all subjects declined, but we took the worst hits in math. There the “the average score on the ACT math test dropped to its lowest level in 20 years — 20.5 on a scale of 1 to 36. American students scored 21.1 in 2012 and 20.7 last year.” We weren’t that hot to begin with, and now we’re just sinking lower than ever on the world stage of competing countries where STEM acumen counts most. (more here)
The latest big problem in our education, of course, is Common Core. The propaganda on CC was that it would just establish some standards, but not dictate curriculum – wrong!
Congressman Andy Thompson of Ohio has been, from the start, attempting to minimize the damage done by CC. He says, "I think testimony we took during our attempts to eradicate Common Core showed the dumbing down of curriculum, the social justice indoctrination, the emphasis on social-emotional learning, reduced quantity and quality of reading, emphasizing screen time rather than classroom instruction." Thompson went on to explain that the "destruction of proper math" has also been a contributing factor. … (CC proponents) place a higher priority on indoctrination than education."
None of the Common Core contamination of curricula makes any sense on the national scale, save for how it neatly dovetails into the objectives laid out in Agenda21. (H/T to reader)
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