SL 653

~ Laura

Forgive me for more education links, but for some reason, my interests are the talking points du jour. Yay.

The Washington Post writes that there are widespread misperceptions about the Common Core. Bill Bennett talks about the ring wing’s problems with the Common Core.

Sometimes, graduate school is a good investment.

The student-debt revolt has begun.

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6 thoughts on “SL 653”

  1. The misperception on the common core appears to be on the subjects it covers, only reading and math, and not science or history? (i.e. evolution, global warming, or sex ed or the American revolution)?

    I think it would be correct to say that most of the people opposing common core on the left do not oppose it based on the subjects it covers (which the polling results also suggested).

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  2. Laura, would you like to see something really crazy? Today’s the day the Chicago Public Schools mailed out acceptance letters to applicants for selective enrollment high schools. There are only 11 SE high schools in the city; competition is clearly worse than college, as kids have so few alternatives.

    Check out this thread, where local parents report the results of their acceptance letters, along with their tier and scores.

    http://cpsobsessed.com/2015/02/17/high-school-acceptances-2015/

    (Since Chicago has ended the requirement to set aside certain volumes of seats by racial group, they now use socioeconomic tier as defined by one’s census tract. Thus the focus on tier.)

    This is the face of inadequate educational support in this country: 8th graders, kids 13 years of age, being sorted into very overt “winner” and “loser” piles. By tomorrow my daughter’s parochial school will have the destinations of all their graduating kids posted, as it’s the #1 marker of elementary school success in many peoples’ minds.

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  4. Why should anyone pay attention to Bill Bennett on this topic?

    Bennett may well have been following the national debate and felt compelled to reach out to fellow conservatives about the Core, but it turns out that he got paid to write the piece. Politico reported that Bennett conceded that DCI Group, a public relations and lobbying firm based in Washington, paid him to write the piece. “I’m compensated for most of the things that I do,” he was quoted as saying.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/13/former-education-secretary-bill-bennett-paid-to-praise-common-core-to-conservatives/

    I just can’t figure out why he mentions Jeb Bush in connection to the Common Core.

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  5. And Valerie Strauss is paid by the Washington Post to write her anti-Common Core opinion articles. I am the only fruitcake in this country writing about education who doesn’t get paid for her work.

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