For once New York State does not stand alone.
As parents across the nation revolt against Common Core, the
educational fix produced by Bill Gates and a band of educrats, New Yorkers have
made their voices heard.
They are overwhelmingly against it. The Daily Caller Reports:
For
months now, New York State has been ground zero for the backlash against Common
Core among parents, teachers and school administrators.
The
latest evidence demonstrating exactly how much New Yorkers loathe Common Core
comes in the form of a shocking statewide poll, Albany
NBC affiliate WNYT reports.
The
poll, by the Times Union of Albany and Siena College Upstate Education,
shows that a whopping 82 percent of the Empire State’s residents want to
abandon the Common Core Standards Initiative in its current form.
Also, New Yorkers do not want the tests that rate teachers
and school districts to be aligned with Common Core.
The poll also found that state residents are perplexed that state education bureaucrats want to use Common Core-aligned tests to rate teachers and school districts. Overwhelmingly, respondents said they don’t care about such ratings, Levy said. Instead, New Yorkers want standardized tests to be used to measure individual student achievement.
Obviously, if Common Core is the basis for standardized
tests, parents and teachers will have to teach to it, like it or not. Rejecting
it as the basis for evaluating achievement is a step in the right direction.
How bad was Common Core?
In the
fall, thanks to a combination of Common Core and new teacher evaluations, some
four- and five-year-old students in New York City were forced to fill in
bubbles on multiple-choice, standardized tests. Many of the kids couldn’t even
hold a pencil, let alone bubble in. Other continually tried to help their
friends get the right answers.
Now, why is it that Jeb Bush and the teachers' unions remain among the few who still support it?
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