Stephen Krashen shows himself to quite the satirist in this report.
HUMOR ALERT: I post this notice because it is hard to tell the difference between satire and reality in American education these days.
Krashen writes:
“There is now no doubt: Americans overwhelmingly support the common core. In a poll organized by the Pearson Publishing Company, 96% strongly agreed with the statement, “Schools should teach important things.” By a wide margin, those surveyed also agreed that “teachers should help students learn stuff.”
But that’s only the beginning: as you might expect, Arne Duncan says of the Pearson poll, “This is a game changer”
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Yes..it is confirmed….The Fox is the best person to guard the hen house!!
LOL
Why do you think the call it Fox News?
LOL…
Of course Pearson finds support. “You are getting very sleepy…you will believe the rhetoric, rigorously.” Recycled nonsense. Like the Michael Jackson song lyric, they are hoping “the lie becomes the truth.”
On another note, what baffles me is why is the USA exporting millions to Pearson? Isn’t there at least one competitor in America? Do our 1%ers live in England?
Good point…Maybe I need to start a testing service that will create terrible tests and charge a ridiculous fee for them.
The 1%ers don’t live anywhere. U.S., U.K., it is just one big playground.
I, too, demand standardized tests made in the USA.
I’ll take tests like the Finnish ones over our bubble tests any day.
Pearson has definitely lucked out! Look at the MILLIONS of dollars to be made as school systems struggle to implement the worthless common core. All of our factories have left our country, so they now lick their chops to make millions on the public schools, with the goal of destroying them. What is so sad is that the the children of the rich do not have to suffer like the middle class and poor children do. More inequality….they are already trying to take away a college education from the middle class. They will all reap what they sew someday. Hope they all like very hot places..because that’s where they are all headed. I know the end of this story.
I agree! What’s more, 98% of parents surveyed agree that teachers should know things about stuff!
They use the theory that if you beat a racehorse harder it will run faster.
Reminds me of a book I read once..it is about 25 pages but it is about everything we’ve done in education that doesn’t work.
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What did the other 2% think?
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I find it interesting that this private company (Pearson) presents this report touting their support of a public policy (Common Core) that ultimately funds their budget. Humorous is right….
We are educators. It is our RESPONSIBILITY to subject proposed standards and assessments to intense scrutiny. It is malfeasance for us simply to accept them.
This poll obviously didn’t include many “progressive” educators.
It was a poll done by the Pearson Board of Directors, the State Legislature of Texas and Little Ricky Perry…
The tests will make millions of dollars for Pearson. It is all a part of the plan to close down schools because of poor test results based on developmentally inappropriate common core standards. People need to wake up.
It does not help that most of what is marketed to us and our districts is “Common Core” aligned
Everyone has to do this now. One cannot sell a product that does not have a CCSS alignment.
Such is curriculum development in the age of the Thought Police.
Piaget is turning over in his grave or his he looking at his watch? LOL
Too funny!
The Deformers always, out of the box, repeat their mantra: new, higher standards.
And the assumption, out of the box, is that those standards are new and that they are higher.
Neither is true. For the most part, the CCSS is a recycling of the lowest-common-denominator groupthink of the state standards from which they were hacked together, overnight, by a group of amateurs.
And, so, yes, if you do a survey and you ask people to rank, on a Likert scale, their responses to such questions as these:
Do you believe that students should leave school college or career ready?
Do you think it important that students learn to read texts closely?
Do you think that good teachers should be rewarded?
Do you think it important to create next generation assessments to ensure that students leave school college and career ready?
then you get the sort of approval rates that the AFT got in its survey of support for the Common Coring of the United States.
It is even more evident when you translate those questions into the statements that would head each Likert scale:
It is important that good teachers are rewarded.
disagree_______________________________________________agree.
Creating this kind of phony survey and then publicizing it is a surefire way to create some bandwagon effect. Reporters typically publish this stuff without having subjected the claims of the survey to any analysis.
Really sad that the AFT did this.
I’ll bet EDC did the survey research for Pearson
“Schools should teach importing things” and ‘teachers should help students learn stuff” are quite hilarious quotes. I think most teachers want to know what “important things” they are supposed to teach under the Common Core, as no one agrees what those are. And what does “learn stuff” mean? I have to question the reliability and validity of this research that Pearson conducted.
Tragi-comic….
As we move toward the 4th of July, we might well consider that Pearson is a British company, and that many in Britain still think the Americans reside in a colony. Maybe they’re right.