re: #203 Justanotherhuman

It has to be better than No Child Left Behind, which was implemented when HS srs today were entering first grade, and which a recent report indicated that only 38% of 12th graders could qualify in reading and math skills by testing. I left that report on an earlier thread.

I didn’t get the entire story Mattand linked to, because the video is being blocked by the Great Firewall of China, but the issue is supposedly whether the college kids can solve the subtraction problem using the CC algorithm. I’m not sure what that’s supposed to prove, really, other than provide fodder for know-nothing sites like Independent Journalism Review aka Fox News Lite.

As far as I can tell, the Common Core Standards are a big improvement over NCLB, which was mostly about testing and funding. The CCS encourage deeper learning and interaction among students and teachers.