AncestorEbooks.com wonders if proponents against a Free-America, such as Bill Gates who is said to be the founder of CCSS, are trying to change more than just curriculum in America's Public Schools. How will future genealogists write of Education Today?
AncestorEbooks, a website for creating family oriented Ebooks, is curious as one by one, States are passing anti-Common Core curriculum bills and resolutions. Indiana's bill SB 193 has passed, Kansas HB2289 & Missouri HB616 have bills that have been introduced. Alabama’s first tries failed but passed yesterday. News about States against CCSS can be found in the current issue of EdWeek.org.
With Public Schooling being the center of Child Development in America, AncestorEbooks decided to look into the controversy. The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were developed in 2009, then released in 2010, and according to About.com, ‘by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). This effort included governors and state commissioners of education from 48 states, 2 territories, and the District of Columbia.’
AncestorEbooks continues, Educational Standards are the academic information students should know and be able to preform in order to succeed in today’s world, and according to Corestandards.org, ‘The CCSS initiative is a state-led effort to ensure students graduating from high school are prepared to enter college programs or the workforce.’
‘From’, says [.faqs.org/childhood/Co-Fa/Education-United-States.html [Faqs.org __title__ Faqs.org], ‘the colonial period to the present, the question of how to properly educate and socialize children and youth has preoccupied parents, teachers, and other adults... Shaping children's character–by having them attend school punctually, obey authority, honor rules and regulations, and attend to their lessons–was central to the thinking behind all ‘public’ schools.
For over 100 years ‘The Mc-Guffey Readers...taught the values of piety and virtue, and Webster's ubiquitous spellers, ...emphasized the English language, uniform spelling and punctuation, and proper diction. Children studying geography learned of the grandeur of America and its material riches, and those studying history of its greatness among nations.’ Today’s America has the exact need today.’
On March 7, 2011 continues AncestorEbooks, Sam Dillon published an article for The [.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/education/07curriculum.html?_r=1& [New York Times __title__ New York Times] about the bipartisan group of educators and business and labor leaders who supported the new Common Core Curriculum. However, as teachers, administrators and curriculum designers began trying to implement this new program in September, problems began to emerge.
On April 17th, The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss, spoke of 8 such problems: ‘Variously motivated corporate interests, arguing that the core was being sloppily taught, organized a behind-the-scenes campaign to super-standardize it. They named their handiwork the Common Core State Standards to hide the fact that it was driven by policymakers in Washington D.C., who have thus far shoved it into every state except Alaska, Minnesota, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia.’
On March 4, Ms Strauss shared a letter by [.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/03/04/principal-i-was-naive-about-common-core/ [Carol Burris __title__ Carol Burris], principal of South Side High School in New York. She was named the 2010 New York State Outstanding Educator by the School Administrators Association of New York State. She is one of the co-authors of the principals’ letter against evaluating teachers by student test scores, which has been signed by 1,535 New York principals.
In her letter, Ms Burris wrote, "When I first read about the Common Core State Standards, I cheered. I believe that our schools should teach all students (except for those who have severe learning disabilities), the skills, habits and knowledge that they need to be successful in post secondary education.
"I confess that I was naïve...Testing, coupled with the evaluation of teachers by scores, is driving its implementation. Many of the teachers in my high school are also the parents of young children. They come into my office with horror stories regarding the incessant pre-testing, testing and test prep that is taking place in their own children’s classrooms."
AncestorEbooks continues, As more and more educators and administrators pit themselves against teaching with CCSS, State Legislators are being asked to fight against the total implementation of Common Core.
Representatives such as Utah's, Bountiful City Chambers, who will speak on Common Core from 7-9pm April 18th, announce on their home pages about meetings held for their citizenry.
Pearson, is the biggest education product sales company on earth.
2. Bill Gates is the second richest man on earth, a man who has almost single-handedly funded and marketed the entire Common Core movement.
Gates openly values extreme socialism and says that it’s much better than American constitutional government.
AncestorEbooks calls all parents, teachers and administrators to look past the ‘well written blogs’ and be aware of what their children are being taught. After all, how America educates the children effects all families and eventually the whole American way of life. Cristina Besendorfer
