{"id":46215,"date":"2018-12-06T11:01:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-06T19:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=46215"},"modified":"2018-12-10T13:01:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-10T21:01:49","slug":"the-result-of-common-core-the-worst-act-scores-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/the-result-of-common-core-the-worst-act-scores-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"The result of Common Core? The worst ACT scores in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently realized this is the most time I\u2019ve spend off campus in, well, my adult life, so allow me to wander off campus in my writings as well, at least for a little.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026Back in 1952 the Army quietly began hiring hundreds of psychologists to find out how 600,000 high school graduates had successfully faked illiteracy. Regna Wood sums up the episode this way:<\/em><\/p>\n

After the psychologists told the officers that the graduates weren\u2019t faking, Defense Department administrators knew that something terrible had happened in grade school reading instruction. And they knew it had started in the thirties. Why they remained silent, no one knows. The switch back to reading instruction that worked for everyone should have been made then\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

I very, very, strongly encourage the dedicated reader to check out this source.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve written of Common Core<\/a> before, several times even. It\u2019s been very clear for a very long time that something is very wrong in public school system. While the above hints that an easy solution would be to revert to known, successful methods of teaching children, that option never seems to be on the table.<\/p>\n

The reason for this, I believe, is that if someone can come up with a method of teaching children, any method even incrementally superior to what we\u2019re disastrously doing now, they get the endless rewards of being an Education guru (that, so far, such gurus have all been utter failures doesn\u2019t seem to impact the rewards, however). There\u2019s just no way to take credit for \u201clet\u2019s just use what we\u2019ve known works based on the last few thousand years,\u201d after all.<\/p>\n

So, it doesn\u2019t matter that Common Core ignores science<\/a>, that it further separates parents from their children (by changing the methods so much that parents can\u2019t help their children learn, a critical part of learning), that it \u201cteaches\u201d in ways that any experienced teacher knows can\u2019t possibly be effective\u2026Common Core it is.<\/p>\n

The gentle reader might be curious how that could be, but part of the reason (beyond simple governmental force) is the effectiveness of Common Core is backed by \u201cstudies.\u201d I\u2019ve seen many such studies, and even when they\u2019re blatantly rigged to generate positive results using statistical manipulations up to outright fraud, it doesn\u2019t matter: nobody dares question these things.<\/p>\n

So, the fantastically rigged studies show Common Core is amazing, simply amazing, when it comes to the success of their weird, nearly inhuman, ideas about how to teach children. What happens in the real world when kids are subjected to Common Core?<\/p>\n

Years After States Adopt Common Core, 2018 Sees Worst ACT Scores in over a Decade<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

So, there it is, then. You can certainly criticize standardized tests, but the fact remains whatever the ACT measures\u2026our students have less of it, thanks to Common Core.<\/p>\n

Only 40 percent of high school students met the ACT College Readiness Benchmark in math. That\u2019s down from an ACT high of 46 percent in 2012, and the lowest mark since 2004, the ACT report noted<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

I remind the gentle reader around 70% of high school students go on to college<\/a> after graduation. When one considers only 46% (more like 40% today, thanks to Common Core) of graduates are ready for college, that means we have a large number of kids flowing on to campus who demonstrably are not ready for campus but could use education vouchers.<\/a><\/p>\n

The reason nobody asks our leaders in higher ed about this obvious discrepancy is similar to why nobody ever challenges those fake studies showing the efficacy of Common Core.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should be concerned as a country,\u201d said Matt Larson, immediate past president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. \u201cThere\u2019s a need to restructure how high-school mathematics teaching and learning is done in the United States.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The ACT basically measures two things, math skills and English skills. It\u2019s clear Common Core has failed to help our kids with math, and I must particularly grieve over this. Is Common Core better with English?<\/p>\n

The report also noted that high school graduates college readiness in English is also slipping. The report said 60 percent were considered ready, based upon their scores, a drop from 64 percent in 2015. The 2018 level was the lowest since current benchmarks began to be used, ACT said.<\/p>\n

More failure. Not to worry, I suppose, as I\u2019m sure some new method of teaching (something called \u201cHomeland Core,\u201d perhaps) will be invented soon, and there will be plenty of studies showing how great it is.
\nBut, honest, we really have known since the 50\u2019s how we can easily improve our public education system, and at least one school is getting a clue:<\/p>\n

Florida School Drops Common Core \u2013 Soars To Number One<\/a><\/p>\n

www.professorconfess.blogspot.com<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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