Education Failing

For John, BLUF:  Yes, this is two years old, but The InstaPundit thought it important, and so do I.  It hasn't improve in the last two years.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up

Here is the sub-headline:

Common Core sucked all the energy, money, and motivation right out of desperately needed potential reforms to U.S. public schools for a decade, and for nothing.

From The Federalist, by Mrs Joy Pullmann, 5 November 2018.

Here is the lede plus three:

It’s been about nine years since the Obama administration lured states into adopting Common Core sight unseen, with promises it would improve student achievement. Like President Obama’s other big promises — “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” — this one’s been proven a scam.

“If you set and enforce rigorous and challenging standards and assessments; if you put outstanding teachers at the front of the classroom; if you turn around failing schools — your state can win a Race to the Top grant that will not only help students outcompete workers around the world, but let them fulfill their God-given potential,” President Obama said in July 2009.

He went on to state his faith that Common Core — at that point unwritten — would “not only make America’s entire education system the envy of the world, but we will launch a Race to the Top that will prepare every child, everywhere in America, for the challenges of the 21st century.” Race to the Top was a $4 billion money pot inside the 2009 stimulus that helped bribe states into Common Core.

So here we are, nine years later. Common Core has been officially rolled out into U.S. public and even many private schools for at least three to five years now. Are American children increasingly prepared for the “the challenges of the 21st century”? We’re actually seeing the opposite. They’re increasingly less prepared. And there’s mounting evidence that Common Core deserves some of the blame.

I am in agreement with the Author  Neither Common Core, nor Leave No Chiled Behind, has given our public education an upward thrust.

For thoe who think this is strictly on the schools, I don't agree.  An important factors is parents and their impact on their children.  Parents are an important factor in their children's perserverencer in school, and their children's success.  Improvementd in education will require more than fixing eduction.  It will require fixing our social services system.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff