Dr. Duke Pesta has given hundreds of presentations around the country on Common Core. Below is a link to one of his very best. It shows the origin of Common Core and those involved with it talking about exactly how it came about and how we won’t know for a decade if it works. To the contrary, we are already seeing evidence that it does not work as math and reading scores are declining nationwide.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/us/math-test-scores-decline-high-school-seniors.html
Dr. Pesta’s video will not allow for embedding so you will have to click this link to watch it.
Michigan just took the best action possible. It dumped Common Core and has adopted the pre-Common Core Massachusetts standards which Fordham said are superior to Common Core.
Time to Admit the Obvious: Common Core Has Failed Spectacularly
The lie that Phil Daro (one of the original drafters of the math standards) declared the creation of Common Core was for social justice to level the playing field, but in reality it is only being played out in that our best and brightest are being held back. Unfortunately the learning gap between the rich and poor has actually widened under Common Core (as predicted). Here’s a report from Stanford on 200 million student’s scores and what they show. Make no mistake, this is 100% on Common Core even though this article doesn’t mention it. Common Core has been around for six years now with full implementation for at least four.
Local education inequities across U.S. revealed in new Stanford data set
It is unfortunate that when I tried to introduce the elementary math parent review committee to the incredible success California was having with low-socioeconomic students and minorities, increasing their proficiency in algebra one by a 6x factor over 10 years, I was shut down by Diana Suddreth at the USOE. They had no intention of letting Utah switch off Common Core. California’s success didn’t meet the agenda of doing this nationwide experiment on our children.
https://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/solution-utah-should-adopt-californias-math-standards
It is too bad that Governor Herbert lost his moorings and then found them when the squeeze was put on his political noose.
What would it be like for the State of Utah to have a Governor
that didn’t want to be “Popular” but wanted to be peculiar, from the rest of the States. We are not only JUST LIKE the rest of the Common Core States, we try to lead the pack of them by being first at this despicable garbage. He brought it to our State, it is now time for Governor Herbert and Common Core to leave together.