With federal law changing to allow states more flexibility, the State Board of Education has announced that it will be re-reviewing common core educational standards, and whether to keep them. (Now maybe we will finally be able to help our kids with math once again):
The South Dakota Board of Education plans to re-evaluate the controversial math and reading curriculum this summer following a massive federal overhaul of the No Child Left Behind law.
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The Every Student Succeeds Act was signed by President Barack Obama in December, but it won’t hit classrooms until the 2017-18 school year. South Dakota education officials will start the revision process this summer for the Common Core.
The state reviews curriculum standards on a seven-year cycle. Reading standards were due for review this summer, but math standards weren’t scheduled for review until the summer of 2017. State education board members agreed unanimously to speed up the process, moving up the timeline for math.
“We’re basically going to review the Common Core and review that process this summer,” Schopp said.
How many proposed laws do we think will come about as a result of this legislation?
Please analyze the standards with experts who can read math/science standards.
http://newbostonpost.com/2016/01/08/deliberately-deceiving-the-public-on-common-core/
Taken from the above referenced article, which I encourage all to read.
“.. as Peter Cunningham, a former official in the U.S. Department of Education points out, ‘the new law that the senator from Tennessee is so proud of, the Every Student Succeeds Act, now mandates the very thing he rails against. Under the new law, every state must adopt ‘college- and career-ready’ standards. Thus, the new law all but guarantees that Common Core State Standards — or a close imitation under a different name — will likely remain in place in most states.’ It seems that Alexander, former president of the University of Tennessee, has managed to deceive not only his constituents in Tennessee and the entire country but also himself.
“Although the bill was signed by President Obama as soon as it reached his desk in December, the nation has yet to learn who wrote the 1,000-page bill and who paid for it. It is clear that Senator Alexander and Senator Patti Murray co-sponsored the bill, but there is nothing on the bill to indicate authorship. In January, the House Appropriations Committee is to fund the bill. So far, there is no indication that the Chair of this committee will have the courage and moral fiber to ask for a hearing in order to find out who wrote the bill, who paid for the bill, and, most important of all for the states, what is in the bill.”
Well, nothing like good ole government tomfoolery like usual. It would be nice, but completely unexpected, if our state Board of Education would dump anything related to Common Core or this newest Common Core in sheep’s clothing.
Another good article.
http://educationblog.ncpa.org/arne-duncan-common-core-now-letter-of-the-law-and-can-be-implemented/
“State legislators, in a meeting with U.S. DOE Chief of Staff Emma Vadehra, were told that ESSA now embeds “College and Career Ready Standards” (an alternate name on Common Core website) and the U.S. DOE “does not expect any states to get away from the standards.” Vadehra also admitted the bill “solidifies the Department’s plans for full pre-K expansion.
“In a recent interview with Politico Pro, outgoing U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan admitted Common Core is being embedded in the law for the first time.
“ESSA brings new federal powers over education: government takeover of pre-K, increased K-12 education mandates, expansion of data driven computer adaptive testing, SLDS data collection by various government agencies for post-secondary education, in-school mental health clinics not covered by HIPPA privacy laws, and 21st Community Learning Centers (with mental-health services) which are designed to replace family and church as the child’s center of life.”