Repealing an

80 Billion Dollar Mistake

and More...

PRESNTATION |CHAKSHU TANDON

COMMON CORE STANDARDS

Introduced in 2009, the Common Core Standards have been fully implemented in 42 states and 5 United States Territories.

Although education reform in the United States is a welcome change, the Common Core Standards (CCS) and other programs like the Common Core Standards Initiative (CCSI) have been unsuccessful in both implementation as well as in creating an impact on student success. 

So Why Is This Bad Again?

Many opponents of the Common Core Standards believe that a centralized, federally-regulated education system is unconstitutional and detrimental to the state of education in this country.

Instead of narrowing the education gap in this country, Common Core puts America further on the global scale and widens the gap from state to state.

According to the Common Core, “The Common Core focuses on developing the critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills students will need to be successful (…) The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live.”

With the exception of a few standards in trigonometry, the math standards end after Algebra II (…) They include no precalculus or calculus. U.S. government data show that only one out of every 50 prospective STEM majors who begin their undergraduate math coursework at the precalculus level or lower will earn a bachelor’s degree in a STEM area. Moreover, students whose last high school math course was Algebra II or lower have less than a 40 percent chance of earning any kind of four-year college degree".

THE PIONEER INSTITUTE

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OK, Tell ME MORE

In early 2015, thousands of students across the country protested Common Core testing by “opting-out”.

Every few years, a new policy is introduced that sets new performance standards and systems of accountability.

Common Core stems from its failed predecessor - No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor, Daniel Koretz, claims, “Reform policies that ‘lead with the test’ need to be fundamentally reconsidered.” Aside from test scores and performance reviews, there is a plethora of skills and qualities in a student that need to be considered."

I'm CONFUSED! I STILL DON't GET WHY COMMON CORE IS BAD

Large companies such as Pearson Education, one of the largest in the business, turn immense profit from standardized testing and textbook production.

Pearson and other testing companies administer the standardized testing...

These companies lobby for new standards every couple of years to turn old tests and review materials obsolete. Then they can sell and charge for new tests and materials.

CAPITALISM!

BUT HEY... MAYBE COMPANIES ARE MAKING MONEY... SO WHAT?

Students are getting worse education and are paying top dollar for it... Lets give an example

Traditional

Common CORE

I'm back. Because I just CAN'T. I can't not say anything. I can't not call out the complete insanity of this Common Core Math. Please explain to me in what CRAZY, BACKWARDS, MAKE BELIEVE WORLD this makes sense??

Math is FACT! Fact is 103 - 28 is ACTUALLY 75. As in actually. Factually. And yes, reasonably.

In this scary world of FAKE MATH, 75 is not the correct answer?! In order for the answer to be REASONABLE, my daughter needs to estimate and come up with the WRONG answer?!?!

This math belongs in the world of unicorns and leprechauns. Not in the real world...where numbers matter!

These are our future doctors that will be prescribing "reasonable" doses of medication, future architects that will design on "reasonable" measurements, and future engineers that will build on "reasonable" plans!

Home school is NOT the answer for me. But a change in our education system is absolutely necessary. We cannot build a future on this kind of thinking.

There is also a tenfold increase in the number of students unable to meet even the most basic state standards.

What DID This Mistake Cost US You Say?

Large companies such as Pearson took huge cuts from the implimentation of Common Core. States had to spend hundreds of millions for new "Common Core Aligned" tests and textbooks.

Estimates prior to rollout placed the national cost of Common Core to be around 3 - 12 Billion Dollars. Actual spending is already in excess of $80 Billion, a markup of 470%.

A study reads, “both vested and independent analyses found that California’s pre-Common Core curriculum mandates were of higher quality than the Common Core that replaced it.”

Moving Forward

THE FOUR STEP PLAN

All of this will end up costing less than Common Core, bypassing greedy textbook companies, and will yield better education standards that are directed to students in different economic and social regions in the United States.

Keeping It Real