Common Core Test Results – ‘Schools Get an F’

George Rebane

My 21jun13 KVMR commentary ‘Common Core is Coming’ invited an intense and long debate in the comment stream of its transcript posted here.  Well, time has passed and the early results of Common Core testing are beginning to come in, and the results aren’t pretty.  The kids are scoring markedly lower on the new standardized tests.  First, Kentucky reported that its elementary and middle schools performance dropped by about a third.  And now New York result is that only 31% of its students test proficient in math and reading.  (Here’s more in the 7aug13 WSJ and from the Daily Caller.)

In other states where Common Core is being implemented, education administrators and officials are telling parents to brace themselves for lower test scores.  And now the national debate will be launched as these test scores come in.  CC proponents argue that we will finally get a true picture of our kids’ academic achievements from these nationalized tests, and to do better in the future we should turn to and spread CC across the land to bring our kids academic performance up to par.  CC opponents are pointing out that the results reflect the application of a dysfunctional ‘one size fits all’ misdirected curriculum that is destined to fail our students during the coming years – another federal education program that doesn’t perform.  Meanwhile, the unions are worried that the teachers will be held to account for their students’ poor showing.

Ah, the joys of central planning.

Comments

[Russ Steele]

Parents who leave their children in these Common Cores school should be shamed for child abuse.

[fish]

Hey Ben....I got yer white privilege right here! (Language warning & very not safe for work)

http://elborak.blogspot.com/2013/08/submitted-without-comment-ii.html

[Bill Tozer]

Mr. Fish...liked the video. BO is not OK, but BOOK is. Very informative. Guess I will see how cheap deodorant really is. Maybe the Dollar Tree has some cause I ran out years ago. Especially enjoyed the BO OK on the cheeks. Not bad for an illegal alien. Welcome home. I will play this at work and hopefully they will send me back for more sensitivity training (again). Love working for a PC company. Each time I say the wrong thing, I get out of work and have to go get re-educated. It all pays the same :)

[Gregory]

The one upside regarding the Common Core test bonanza the private companies that own Common Core will be reaping is that having data on all kids on a national test in private hands will also enable statistical "value-added" analyses that will actually be able to evaluate teacher effectiveness.

I expect the big winners under Common Core curriculum and testing will be the neighborhood St.Sensibles. It's where I had to turn when my kid wasn't being taught critical math and language elements because the whole math and whole language crowd, also behind Common Core, didn't believe in actually teaching kids, preferring constructivist "discovery" methods that try to lead kids to figuring it out for themselves.

[Bill Tozer]

Let's help our young people who have embarking on their journey to where the rubber meets the road:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/land-job-six-college-courses-110000634.html

[George Rebane]

BillT 923am - thanks for the good link. Let's hope our liberal friends try and understand some of it (especially the STEM part).

[fish]

I'm so disappointed that none of our more "thoughtful" participants took part in my little Rorschach test. Now with the Emerys impending departure we'll never know their thoughts.

Sigh.