Common Core

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...21b300a-e4e7-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html

Farina, Buckwheat, and Stymie set the standards.

 

[oggbashan]

The UK has a National Curriculum that defines what should be taught in every subject at every level in school.

When it was introduced it was fiercely opposed by many teachers. Since then it has been amended and generally improved, but it creates too much paperwork and too much box-ticking.

The French introduced a version of 'Common Core' or 'National Curriculum' in the decade after the French Revolution of 1789. They are relaxing the requirements in the 21st Century but are still more prescriptive than education rules in the US or UK.

I have an original French newspaper from the 1790s that gives full details of a proposal showing what should be taught in French schools. Unusually for the time, girls and boys were to be taught exactly the same subjects to the same level.

The only difference? While the girls were being taught about pregnancy and childbirth, the boys would be taught surveying. Both were to be taught about conception and child care. That particular set of proposals never happened. They had to reduce the requirements significantly but they kept the idea that boys and girls should be taught as much.

Why didn't they implement the full proposals?

They were spending too much money fighting the English.

 

[1sickbastard]

Oh look, a link to an op-ed blog that the op couldn't understand well enough to succinctly summarize in a several sentence synopsis, yet insists is the standard for those whom do not share his opinions.

 

[JohnnySavage]

When I was a lad, we had to learn Metric. We survived.

Bullshit comes and goes, mostly it just goes.

Since the beginning of time, schools have had a curriculum and a test to make sure the minimum standards are being effectively taught. In a few years the term "Common Core" will be replaced with something else.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Education is the worlds 2nd oldest profession.

The oldest profession never changes but education is all fashion, and never really improves things.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

When I was a lad, we had to learn Metric. We survived.

Bullshit comes and goes, mostly it just goes.

Since the beginning of time, schools have had a curriculum and a test to make sure the minimum standards are being effectively taught. In a few years the term "Common Core" will be replaced with something else.

I went thru college about the time my kids were in school. The math I took at college was the math I learned in school. And when I taught my kids the same math (because they were at sea with the new math) I got plenty of nasty-grams from school demanding I stop tutoring my kids. Now the new math of the 80s is shit.

 

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[PoppingTom]

... education is all fashion, and never really improves things.

Loser.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...21b300a-e4e7-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_blog.html

Farina, Buckwheat, and Stymie set the standards.

Whoever wrote that didn't bother to read the CC standards.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Whoever wrote that didn't bother to read the CC standards.

"Accuracy and truthfulness are luxuries we can no longer afford in the war on terror!" - Queerbait

 

[1sickbastard]

Education is the worlds 2nd oldest profession.

The oldest profession never changes but education is all fashion, and never really improves things.

Stupidity is the world's oldest hobby. Education failed in your case because while education can cure ignorance, it cannot do anything with stupid.

Time you get a new hobby. I suggest you try using your head to crush rocks. it's not like you're using it for anything else.

 

[1sickbastard]

Here we have freedom and a Constitution that leaves it up to the states for the most part.

We also have a National Education Agency and the states that want to forgo those federal dollars are free to disregard the standards set by the NEA.

That's what you went to Vietnam and cleaned latrines for after all, the US FEDERAL gov't, not the California Secessionist gov't.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Stupidity is the world's oldest hobby. Education failed in your case because while education can cure ignorance, it cannot do anything with stupid.

Time you get a new hobby. I suggest you try using your head to crush rocks. it's not like you're using it for anything else.

My garden is splendid.

 

[1sickbastard]

My garden is splendid.

Well good for you!
I'll bet it's because it's well fertilized...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Well good for you!
I'll bet it's because it's well fertilized...

Indeed it is but not with dog shit.

 

[1sickbastard]

Indeed it is but not with dog shit.

No, I would think horseshit far more likely.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No, I would think horseshit far more likely.

Horse shit is good fertilizer when diluted....it catches fire.

 

[1sickbastard]

Horse shit is good fertilizer when diluted....it catches fire.

I'm sure your knowledge & experience concerning horseshit is nigh-well unassailable.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm sure your knowledge & experience concerning horseshit is nigh-well unassailable.

I am experienced with most fertilizers.

 

[1sickbastard]

I am experienced with most fertilizers.

How could anyone reasonably argue with such a statement?