Common as in communism

WestlinnDuck

One of the most basic rationales for government is the education of our children so our culture and civilization can continue. But to a leftard education is not the purpose it is indoctrination so that the state can control us for the benefit of the elites. We are not teaching our kids how to read, understand basic math and economics and to think for themselves. We are teaching them that a state run economy and magic unicorn farts will provide for a utopia here on earth. When barry and the jebster agree on something – you know you are facing disaster.
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/31/first-common-core-high-school-grads-worst-prepared-for-college-in-15-years/
First Common Core High School Grads Worst-Prepared For College In 15 Years
This is the opposite of what we were told would happen with trillions of taxpayer dollars and an entire generation of children who deserve not to have been guinea pigs in a failed national experiment.

For the third time in a row since Common Core was fully phased in nationwide, U.S. student test scores on the nation’s broadest and most respected test have dropped, a reversal of an upward trend between 1990 and 2015. Further, the class of 2019, the first to experience all four high school years under Common Core, is the worst-prepared for college in 15 years, according to a new report.
The National Assessment of Educational Progress is a federally mandated test given every other year in reading and mathematics to students in grades four and eight. (Periodically it also tests other subjects and grade levels.) In the latest results, released Wednesday, American students slid yet again on nearly every measure.
Reading was the worst hit, with both fourth and eighth graders losing ground compared to the last year tested, 2017. Eighth graders also slid in math, although fourth graders improved by one point in math overall….
Common Core is a set of national instruction and testing mandates implemented starting in 2010 without approval from nearly any legislative body and over waves of bipartisan citizen protests. President Obama, his Education Secretary Arne Duncan, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Bill Gates, and myriad other self-described education reformers promised Common Core would do exactly the opposite of what has happened: improve U.S. student achievement. As Common Core was moving into schools, 69 percent of school principals said they also thought it would improve student achievement. All of these “experts” were wrong, wrong, wrong.
“The results are, frankly, devastating,” said U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said in a statement about the 2019 NAEP results. “This country is in a student achievement crisis, and over the past decade it has continued to worsen, especially for our most vulnerable students. Two out of three of our nation’s children aren’t proficient readers. In fact, fourth grade reading declined in 17 states and eighth grade reading declined in 31.”
On the same day the NAEP results were released, the college testing organization ACT released a report showing that the high school class of 2019’s college preparedness in English and math is at seniors’ lowest levels in 15 years. These students are the first to have completed all four high school years under Common Core.
“Readiness levels in English, reading, math, and science have all decreased since 2015, with English and math seeing the largest decline,” the report noted. Student achievement declined on ACT’s measures among U.S. students of all races except for Asian-Americans, whose achievement increased.

Bendintheriver

Jeezus........leave it to liberals to destroy our country from within. Nothing more basic and within than our education system.

And again, BO forced it down every screaming parents throats (and there were millions of them screaming) with zero legislation.

Is there a bigger disaster one could damage this country with than dumbing down our youths? Seriously.

Get the fuck out of education libs. You are destroying our nations youths and it has been declining ever since you decided to take education over in the 60's.

This is startling:

Comparing the oldest—those born from 1947 to 1957—to youngest cohorts—those born from 1988 to 1996, the U.S. gains are especially weak. The United States ranks dead last among 26 countries tested on math gains, and second to last on literacy gains across these generations. The countries which have made the largest math gains include South Korea, Slovenia, France, Poland, Finland, and the Netherlands.

For the nation’s 17-year-olds, there have been no gains in literacy since the National Assessment of Educational Progress began in 1971. Performance is somewhat better on math, but there has still been no progress since 1990. The long-term stagnation cannot be attributed to racial or ethnic differences in the U.S. population. Literacy scores for white students peaked in 1975; in math, scores peaked in the early 1990s.

Declining education productivity disproportionately harms the poor. The rising costs of education cannot be fully offset by redistributive mechanisms. And unlike their affluent peers, low-income parents lack the resources to overcome weak quality by home-schooling their children or hiring private tutors.

Over the last 30 to 40 years, the United States has invested heavily in education, with little to show for it. The result is a society with more inequality and less economic growth; a high price.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/social-mobility-memos/2016/12/23/the-declining-productivity-of-education/

The following is the result of poor k-12 education in America. Again, teachers and admin are dominated by those on the left.

The most serious problem is in the area of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math), where there are almost 3 million unfilled jobs, but only about 300,000 graduates annually. This shortage of US-born STEM workers gives companies two choices: import costly foreign labor, or move operations abroad. In fact, according to the OECD the US has less PhD STEM graduates (per million population) than many other developed countries. The picture is even bleaker when one considers that many of those advanced degrees are awarded to foreigners. For example, about half of all engineering doctoral degrees are awarded to non-US nationals. The implications of this shortfall are not only economic, but also a national security concern as it will become increasingly difficult to fill sensitive security-related jobs.

Thanks libs, now get the fuck out of the way.

WestlinnDuck

The US government has spent hundreds of billions of dollars to “improve” the US public education system only to make it worse. If the US Department of Education had never been formed and no federal tax dollars were spent on education, we would be better off. The obvious solution is to hire more federal bureaucrats and get the federal government even more involved. Like when the federal government decided to get involved in school discipline and ruled that suspending or expelling kids for unruly behavior at best and criminal behavior at worst was racist and not to be allowed and classroom behavior unexpectedly got even worse.