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Title: Core of the Problem: The Real Agenda Behind Common Core
Published: 2014-05-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMy_92XXS_4
Title: Core of the Problem: The Real Agenda Behind Common Core
Published: 2014-05-27
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMy_92XXS_4
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of you who have contributed to this fund raising drive already and for those who haven't please consider doing so and on that note let's get straight into this week's eye opener report Felix made each birthday invitations with hearts he needs some more with stars he need seventeen invitations in all how many invitations had hearts you really have a favorite day of the week she chose this8/43
day because it is the only day that has an eye in it what is a release favorite day show your work in the tank make the sentence less wordy by replacing the underlined words with a possessive noun phrase the commands of government officials must be obeyed by all these problems and countless more like them have shown up online in recent months there are examples cold from9/43
worksheets tests homework assignments and other materials developed under the United States common core K. through twelve educational standards and initiative designed according to the common core official website to provide a sort of high quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts literacy its critics however see it very differently a lot of that criticism has been directed examples of overly complicated baffling impossible or utterly meaningless10/43
questions and activities that have been developed to meet the standards or on controversial statements like those of Amanda August a curriculum developer in Chicago suburb who was berated for seeming to imply that under common core math three times four equals eleven will be an acceptable response but even under the new common core it even if they said three times for was eleven if they were able11/43
to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer really in %HESITATION words an oral explanations and they showed it in the picture but they just got the final number wrong we're really more focusing on the how and the why do you correcting them all and I loosely absolutely we want our soon correctly but the emphasis is really one nation common chords defenders12/43
argue that the questions an assignment showing up on line are examples of individual school board's interpretation of the standards and do not reflect on common core themselves they also point out that August was not seeing the teachers wouldn't correct students incorrect answers only the greater emphasis will be placed on showing the process by which students to deuce those answers more serious criticism of common core has13/43
been leveled at the standards themselves and their development by a host of critics including professors of education mathematicians former members of the department of education the largest teachers union in the country and countless other professionals some of the most impassioned critiques however come from the affected students themselves one notable example is E. thing young high school senior who spoke out against common core at the November14/43
sixth two thousand thirteen meeting of the Knox County school board regular meeting here's the history of the common core in two thousand nine the national governors association the council of chief state school officers partner with achieve ain't a nonprofit that receive millions of funding %HESITATION from the bill Melinda gates foundation dusty initiative seem to spring from states when in reality it was contrived by an insular15/43
group of educational testing executives with only two academic content specialists neither specialist approve the final standards and the English consultant doctor Sandra stocks he publicly stated she felt the standards let students with an empty skill set lacking literary knowledge well educators administrators were later including the validation committee and feedback groups they did not play a role in the actual drafting of the standards the product is16/43
a quote rigorous preparation for career and college yet many educate the the cool nevertheless common core merged keep in mind a specific standards were never voted upon by Congress the department education state or local government yeah their implementation was a per forty nine states and territories the president sensually bribe states and implement erase the four point three five billion taxpayer dollars participating states five hundred see17/43
and much like no child left behind the program promises national testing a one size fits all education because Hey it works really well the first time well I do admire some aspects of the course such as fear standards an emphasis on application writing it's not going to fix our academic deficit if nothing else the standards are glowing conflict of interest and they lack the research they18/43
allegedly received and most importantly the standards illustrate a mistrust of teachers something I believe this county is already felt for awhile as young mentioned only to academic content specialists participated in the drafting of the standards and neither of them actually improve the standards that were eventually drafted both specialists education professor doctor send Ristovski and Stanford mathematician doctor James Milgram now traveled the country warning parents of19/43
the complete inadequacy of common core for preparing American students for college entry or for the necessary skills to compete in the twenty first century yeah I understand that there were obviously certain ideas about what common fourth place designed to get that by the time they finish coming out with the standards that we did for me college readiness is still displayed enter a community level college and20/43
have very heat for them as they passed a test based on the college radio standards would have guaranteed for them credit very freshman courses that was the basic idea between book for college radio standards they would both of where college may and I really wasn't that who would normally get together in view of the city those change college freshmen that's correct English and high school teachers21/43
attractive English were for the most part knock on any piece today that was the basic problem that started how many people are in in and twenty phone nine I was appointed to the common core validation committee and as was mentioned a I was the only actual mathematician and indeed the only member of the entire committee which was it is which was overseen the development of one22/43
of the most important works in education are in many many years and I was the only one a with it with a P. H. D. in content and not an education %HESITATION so I took it on myself to try to get the best possible document in mathematics however in the end is has been mentioned I could not sign off one they documented that had resulted because23/43
it's not internationally benchmarked and indeed there's no research behind it in particular there is no guarantee whatsoever that any of these courses will work the most dramatic of these of course is the the purely experimental a geometry course which are the only evidence for that is back in the late nineteen seventies for a couple years the Russians use developed a course very much like this and24/43
it was so roundly condemned by the teachers by the students %HESITATION and and they indeed by the whole country that it disappeared after two years so if the common core is so reviled by teachers students education standards proponents principles and seemingly every other sector of society with a direct stake in them why are they being promoted so heavily where is the funding for this initiative coming25/43
from if you don't have commonality it's like electrical plug you get more pre market competition scale is good for free market competition individual state regulatory capture is not good for competition and so this thing in terms of driving innovation you'd think that sort of pro capitalistic market driven people would be in in favor of that %HESITATION but you know somehow it's it's are it's gotten to26/43
be controversial are and then states will decide whatever they want to decide is fine common core has been developed with the direct support of the bill and Melinda gates foundation which has invested one hundred and seventy three million dollars in the development of common core materials and promoting the initiative at the state level and an estimated two point three billion dollars in total funding related the27/43
common core standards development including grants for the development of biometric bracelets that will monitor students interest level in class and you start out that article with a very specific discussion of a gates foundation funded program called the measures of effective teachers project project so perhaps you can tell us about this this project and it's never yeah the other measures of effective teachers project is part of28/43
a forty five million dollar plan to quantifying to measure school teachers alleged efficiency in delivering the public school curriculum other projects has a great many individuals involved including academic psychologists other sociologists education scholars even a statistician from the rand corporation obvious Spearman began and not two thousand nine and focuses mainly on inner city schools now the whole idea behind this is the establishment of a metrics29/43
for identifying techniques to maintain young people's attention spans this looks to be in part a type of audience research a complete with galvanic skin bracelets to measure a student behaviors and reactions so the ostensible use of the data will be to determine how teachers will be hired are compensated promoted and so on what we have to be put on guard when we hear terms such as30/43
measurements or quantification I especially when it comes to education and teaching because these were the techniques originally used to bring us psychology into the American educational enterprise out to to begin with up the fact that this is being done to mainly are African American and Latino children and not inner city schools should also call the mine out early social science has been used perpetuate eugenics and31/43
Diane emphasize the alleged racial a racially specific guy inferiority as of lot of non whites I'm so the arm the project over all arm essentially involves the dehumanization of what is known in an apparently human process that is cultivating individuals to recognize and aspire to a higher intellectual level of the public school curriculum the abundance of standardized testing and now programs like these collectively act as32/43
a harness on real education it's not time to refine the psychological conditioning and curriculum delivery process rhetoric in them that is more or less dead on arrival and intended to discourage in the pin independent plot and curiosity if the interest the billionaires like the gates and other common core advocates displayed in revising educational standards were merely about dumbing down the math and language skills of children33/43
across America that would be bad enough but the ramifications of this process do not stop at the ability to add subtract or spell they go right to the heart of a vision for society that was laid out over a century ago and perhaps most boldly articulated by president Woodrow Wilson himself in his nineteen oh nine addressed to the New York City high school teachers association where34/43
he admitted we want one class of persons to have a liberal classical education and we want another class of persons very much larger class of necessity in every society to forego the privileges of liberal education and for themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks as educators like former New York state teacher of the year John Taylor Gatto have exhaustively documented over decades of study the end35/43
goal of this process is and always has been to prepare students solely for the purpose of being obedient workers and citizens in a status quo owned and operated by the political economic and industrial elite then you'd learn that young people are really tapped captives of a desperate utopian scheme to hold them subordinate to the well a manager's advanced utopians scheme to extend their childhoods far beyond36/43
the natural term so they might better fit the hierarchical nature of corporate economy and corporate societies that the conscious manipulation of the masses into obedient workers is the real end goal of these educational reforms is made explicit in example after example from the common core materials that promote blind allegiance to and obedience to government in inappropriate completely propagandistic ways what do you think kids who can't37/43
read rather writing about I'll give an example from out of state Wisconsin little Hudson Wisconsin headed by a white national right where little kids in my state were sent home third graders and given the following writing a sign tell us how the state is just like the family but better that was the writing assignment and this I'm now giving away the game if you ask me38/43
put a gun to my head and ask me what in one word common Korea's that's it it's status it has nothing to do with education is a concerted effort on the part of the government to convince your kids they belong first to the government and second to you it is a drive that at every sense of the church in every sense of curriculum are gonna look39/43
at it seeks to divorced parents from children to make kids wards of the state everything you have been told about common core is a lie it is not a state initiative it was not developed by educators it is not going to better prepare students for college or real world applications it is part of a century long process of using the education system to mould students into40/43
more obedient workers and tax cattle and it is promoted by billionaires with hidden agendas of their own after all if common court is worthy of hundreds of millions of dollars in direct investment and billions of dollars in in direct investment why doesn't get sent his own children to a school that actually makes use of the standards instead the prestigious lakeside school in Seattle that the gigs41/43
children attend does not mention the common core math and language arts standards anywhere on their website and explicitly states that their school is for more advanced children and thus excuse the standard testing that forms the basis of the common core system as opposition the common core continues to rise and implementation continues to proceed concerned parents students and community members would do well to ask why common42/43
core is good enough for their own children but not for the privileged offspring of the gates and the other billionaire oligarchs behind the modern education system he was brought to you by the subscribers of boiling frog post dot com for more information on this and other topics please go to boiling trucks pose dot com for more information and commentary from James Corbett please go to court