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Arne Duncan: ‘White suburban moms’ upset that Common Core shows their kids aren’t ‘brilliant’
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[quote:Chrit:MV8yNDEyOTE4XzQxMzg4NDM3X0U2MEFGNzc2] [quote:Anonymous Coward 50076276:MV8yNDEyOTE4XzQxMzg4MTc0XzFEQTRBMTIz] [quote:Anonymous Coward 22994320:MV8yNDEyOTE4XzQxMzg3NDgzXzVBRjBGQUYy] A lot of people cheering for Duncan don't have a clue what Common Core is about. It DUMBS DOWN education to the point that kids will not be able to think for themselves. The kids who put down the right or the logical answers are going to get those answers wrong because those answers don't fit the "agenda" of common core. Please don't be idiots, and do your own research. [/quote] oh, of course, we have to "do our own research", because you are too ignorant and stupid to do a write up of your findings. common core is fine. Now stfu. [/quote] Sure comrade we hear ya. [i]Snip;[/i] New York City teachers recently received their new Common Core-approved textbooks — a month late — and they don’t like them one bit. “[b]They are loaded with errors[/b],” said Rebecca Murphy a third-grade teacher in Queens, in a statement to the New York Daily News. [b]The mistakes are numerous. A third-grade workbook contains a set of questions accompanying a mismatched reading selection; one of the pages in another workbook is printed upside down; and some teacher’s manuals don’t line up with student versions.[/b] [i]Snip2;[/i] Pearson’s products have been heavily criticized for incomprehensibility. A [b]first-grade math test[/b] was recently scrutinized for [b]asking kids conceptually odd questions that would stump calculus students[/b]. [b]And a lesson on possessive nouns contained Orwellian statements about the relationship between the individual and government, such as “[color=red]The commands of government officials must be obeyed by all[/color],” and “[color=red]An individual’s wants are less important than the nation’s well-being[/color].”[/b] http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/13/common-core-textbooks-arrive-late-filled-with-errors/ [b]more from New York, this is tomorrow[/b] STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- [b]As interest in Monday's statewide school boycott continues to swell[/b], SILive.com readers are sounding off about the state's new Common Core Curriculum standards. [b]Parents throughout the state are preparing to keep their children home from school on Monday, in what's being labeled as [color=red]"National Common Core Protest Day."[/color][/b] The grassroots movement is being fueled by the social media, on Facebook and Twitter. http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2013/11/post_620.html :Oflag1: [/quote]
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”
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