Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren’t ‘brilliant’

[bobclark86]

103. NOW global?

Had any of these people paid attention, they'd notice we've been blathering on about global interdependence in schools since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

"Oh, but that doesn't apply to ME!!!"

Yeah, a lot of it is the whole "Wait, my kid isn't stupid! But he's MINE!" mentality.

We dump more money into education in this country than anywhere else in the world. As we've show by our abysmal scores, it isn't working. A third of fourth graders can't read Beverly Cleary books. We spend 7 to 8 times as much per student, but our math scores are about the same as those in Mexico. You know, the place literally millions of people have fled to come pick our lettuce?

It doesn't help we have 50 sets of standards that are incompatible, and a student moving between states can be a year or more off (Found this out when my family moved 30 miles once... I was a year ahead in math, but my classes in the second state were about a year behind in reading).

We are so far behind, I feel it necessary to post this:

We need to emulate (a word many high school grads here can't figure out) what other countries do -- which, coincidentally, has absolutely NOTHING to do with private schools with federal and state money.

Fun Factof the Day: One of the major forces opposing Common Core has this for their reasoning: "Agenda 21's coming to take our gunz and give us commie breadlines!"

Yup, the Tea Party.