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Longmire:
To get a sense of the level of support  for Common Core from members of this website.

geronl:
A lot of states call it something else.

ABX:

--- Quote from: geronl on August 21, 2016, 05:26:09 pm ---A lot of states call it something else.

--- End quote ---

Texas officially banned it (HB 462) but a lot of districts are using it with a different name, Project Based Learning Initiative. Several close to us use it.  There is a lot of bad information out there about it. Yes, people should be concerned, but here is an example that a local activist was passing around re the PBL program that is about half bunk.

montanajoe:
Montana was about the last State to adopt the Common Core standards. I have kids in elementary school so I have more than a passing interest in this. The way it is done here is the local districts are free to teach the students pretty much as they always have. The only difference I have noticed is that they test the kids a couple times a year and send the scores home with the report cards. The testing shows how your kid is doing compared to the others in their school and also compared to the state and national averages. Actually I find that quite useful, my kids are very smart (obviously :laugh:) so there is never a problem but if it looks like they might be a little slow in one area we can work on it.

The curriculum is much more difficult than I remember, my daughter is starting the 5th grade and she is doing math problems and spelling words I didn't learn until high school. Generally the public schools up here are much better than other places  so I suppose folks in other parts of the country may have a different experience but as it is done here I support it...

Longmire:
@montanajoe How are schools funded where you are Joe, is it through property taxes?

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