tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post9167191931848232987..comments2024-03-29T04:34:05.185-04:00Comments on CURMUDGUCATION: Sorry, Newsweek, But You're wrong About Louis C. K.Peter Greenehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16511193640285760299noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-42985287068175210992014-05-09T16:02:16.003-04:002014-05-09T16:02:16.003-04:00"Joy" is exactly what our kids need in ..."Joy" is exactly what our kids need in the classroom. They need to love learning, or all the "rigor" in the world will not make a damn bit of difference. Pat Greenehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10335571429206467928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-64060609820755459242014-05-02T07:15:44.415-04:002014-05-02T07:15:44.415-04:00The comment that I left on the Newsweek article:
...The comment that I left on the Newsweek article:<br /><br />I laugh a bitter laugh every time I hear someone refer to the Common [sic] Core [sic] State [sic] Standards [sic] as "higher." These were hacked together by amateurs, overnight, without any professional vetting. They were paid for by plutocrats who wanted one national bullet list to tag their educational software and assessments to. The ELA "standards" are backward, hackneyed, unimaginative, often prescientific, and dramatically distorting of both curricula and pedagogy. And one could drive whole curricula through their lacunae. Learning involves acquisition of both world knowledge (knowledge of what) and procedural knowledge (knowledge of how). The Common Core in ELA contains ALMOST NONE of the former and expresses the latter so vaguely that, not being concrete or operationalized, they cannot be validly tested, and so the new tests being put together based on the Core are completely invalid. The lead author of these "standards" had absolutely ZERO relevant experience. The authors hacked these together based on a quick review of the lowest-common-denominator groupthink of the state standards that preceded them. Educational publishers are now taking these amateurish, puerile "standards" as a de facto curriculum, producing texts filled with activities that model the egregiously narrowed activities on the new Common Core College and Career Reading Assessment Program (C.C.C.C.R.A.P.) tests. Basically, these "standards" have turned K-12 education in the U.S. into low-level test prep. The "standards" are invariant. Kids are not. These "standards" belong to an extrinsic punishment and reward theory of education that is entirely discredited, for extrinsic punishment and reward is inherently demotivating for cognitive tasks. The "standards" are the product of a takeover of U.S. education by know-nothing plutocrats and business people and politicians who have decided to micromanage U.S. education based on dangerous, backward ideas, and these "standards" will have, are having, precisely the opposite of their intended effect. However, they are making and will make a lot of money for a few software vendors and testing companies. This piece by Nazaryan is clueless. Teachers oppose these "standards" not because they fear being held accountable but because the "standards" themselves are very, very badly conceived and are doing enormous damage, every day, in classrooms around the United States. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-21846763119400295062014-05-02T01:17:31.045-04:002014-05-02T01:17:31.045-04:00Common Core is not a valid measure of anything exc...Common Core is not a valid measure of anything except a child's endurance for psychological torture. These Pearson faux tests and materials are designed to make children fail. Reformers are only interested in failure data.<br /><br />Any educator who still has common sense can look at Pearson's questions and recognize it as junk. Any parent who understands how children learn will recognize it as junk. Wake up America and keep these perpetrators of Commom Core away from your kids. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-47630083447229915672014-05-02T01:04:58.120-04:002014-05-02T01:04:58.120-04:00Pity you are so deprived of good reading material....Pity you are so deprived of good reading material. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-81365565565027189862014-05-01T22:50:43.977-04:002014-05-01T22:50:43.977-04:00I'm pretty neutral on the CCSS, but this is so...I'm pretty neutral on the CCSS, but this is some of the best writing I've read in a while. Excellent!Dave Eckstromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13521336850803352134noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-17991950645715786792014-05-01T21:27:24.115-04:002014-05-01T21:27:24.115-04:00Does the author, Nazaryan, have children of his ow...Does the author, Nazaryan, have children of his own? Do they go to public or private school? If public- is it urban/poor public or wealthy/suburban? I bet I already know. Big money now controls media. Who owns media? Big money. They want to buy/control public education too. Mainstream media is biased, with rare exception.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11341223534404676619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6534665086749553287.post-32503438226795083572014-05-01T20:31:34.899-04:002014-05-01T20:31:34.899-04:00And in a total dick move Newsweek had to throw a K...And in a total dick move Newsweek had to throw a Klan in Indiana comment into the article.John Arlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01780222251954845129noreply@blogger.com