The Industrial Engine

COMMON CORE FAILURE How an industrial engine is harming our kids, and leaving our neediest behind. INDUSTRIAL ENGINE WE HAVE TO ADOPT COMMON CORE BECAUSE: 45 states successfully vied FOR $4.35 BILLION in Race to the Top Funds THE REQUIREMENT: States must adopt "college- "Economics Collapse" As warned by top "Risk to National corporations running full page ads in the NY times. Security" As warned by the council of Foreign and-career ready standards." Relations. Achieve Inc $20.9 MILLION Gates Foundation $2 MILLION Carnegie Foundation $2.6 MILLION GE, Prudential, Nationwide, Lumina, 2009 FUNDING: State Farm Spent TWO YEARS compiling data on common core With only TWO academic content specialists. Does not equal outcomes on a 13-year program (K-12) for millions of children. Students, teachers and parents did not play an active role in drafting the standards. benchmarks (reading and math). ITS A PIPELINE, AND ITS ENTREPRENEURIAL IT'S TURNING KIDS OFF. TO SCHOOL Leaving students demoralized to tears BY FORCING A HARDER and teachers CURRICULUM: ared! Many students fall even farther behind Get discouraged And drop out New York was the first large state to implement common core under old standards. = % of children meeting standards = % of children under common core 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% CASE STUDY: ALGEBRA In reality: Algebra at too early of an age turns kids off to math, and often becomes a cited Rationale: Students with Common core teaches algebra in the 8th grade during a plateau in childhood brain development making it much harder to deal with and retain new concepts. algebra have more options when they graduate, and the earlier one takes algebra, the more advanced courses they can take before college. reason for dropping out, ultimately leaving kids with less options. 8th grade Algebra proficiency levels plummeting = New Mexico: 43% In the real world, how many times will an employer ask you for a proof of the quadratic equation? = Tennessee: 39% = West Virginia: 35% = Oklahoma: 33% 0% 20 40 60 80 100 IS THE SYSTEM 1% 58% REALLY WORKING IN of the 1.7 million bachelor's degrees awarded last year were in math of those that enter higher education graduate So only 58 out of every 10,000 students successfully graduate as math majors HIGHER EDUCATION? Think about it: With the well documented negative effects of forcing math at too early of a developmental stage, we could be weeding out the next Pulitzer prize winner, famed historian, or innovator by turning them off to school. SHOULD EDUCATION BE- HARMFUL TO STUDENTS? In Florida: Michael The flawed argument: By instantly raising the bar many kids will fall behind, but some will excel even more giving a 9 year old boy who has never set foot in a school. He was born prematurely at four pounds, with only a brain stem, unable to speak or see. He is expected to be tested like any other 9 year old boy. corporate America and the government more recruits. Many states have policies for what to do if students vomit or urinate from test anxiety. SOURCES: BROUGHT TO YOU BY BESTEDUCATIONDEGREES.COM http://www.corestandards.org/in-the-states http://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2013/12/02/more-on-the-common-core-achieve-inc-and-then-some/ http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/as_predicted_scores_plunge_on_tough_new_state_english_and_math_tests.html#incart_ri ver http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/08/new_yorks_test-score_plunge_leaves_parents_to_wonder_is_my_child_on_track.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer- sheet/wp/2013/11/08/common-core-implementation-called-worse-than-healthcare-gov-launch/ http://mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2013/4/7/florida_law_says_bli.html http://ourfuture.org/20130508/why-we-need-a-moratorium-on-the-high-stakes-of-common-core-testing http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?pagewanted=all Reading Math