“Charter schools have become a parallel school system unto themselves, a system controlled largely by for-profit management companies and private landlords — one and the same, in many cases — and rife with insider deals and potential conflicts of interest.” — Miami Herald
Articles tagged with: Common Core State Standards
Read the fine print! This charter schools initiative offers only a limited degree of choice and instead ushers in a new bureaucratic commission and charter system that is not accountable to Washington voters.
All Charter schools must follow the same learning standards as each other and as the public schools, according to the initiative. Read more about this….
The disturbing education issue that is not being mentioned in the media or by policy makers is the massive amount of personal information that will be collected on every child, all in the name of “education.” Ultimately, the government will have archived massive amounts of personal information about every person from birth.
Are the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) the solution to all our education ills? No, but they are the pet project of bureaucrats, data-analysts, employees at the Federal Department of Education, and the like.
The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief School State Officers who are the proponents of the Common Core State Standards claim that the new standards will be an ideal solution for improving education in the U.S.A. But a leading education specialist calls the standards “pedagogically useless.”
See the reasons the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction wants to adopt the Common Core State Standards…. and the refutations of each reason below each statement.
“….But are the Common Core Standards really “revolutionary”? Or are they fundamentally the same as the sets of standards that currently exist in each of the 50 states, different only in their wording?….”
Common Core Standards of education for all the states is not the magic solution it claims to be.
“If we accomplish one thing in the coming years it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America,” stated Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Does this mean uniform mediocrity?