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Rotten to the Core (Part 2): Readin', Writin' and Deconstructionism

jwilliams Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 9:23 AM
"The Common Core English/language arts criteria call for students to spend only half of their class time studying literature, and only 30 percent of their class time by their junior and senior years in high school." Those numbers don't apply to English/language arts CLASSROOMS, though. Those are the English/language arts standards ACROSS THE CURRICULUM. Or are you outraged at the idea that kids are mostly reading nonfiction in science and history?
talltexanoilfieldtrash Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 10:53 AM
AGW and Revisionist history are "non-fiction"? My B_S Detector is sounding about your comments.
jwilliams Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 11:06 AM
Might want to check the batteries in that detector. If nothing else, it missed the word "mostly." Are you do really think that MOST of what students read in history and science is "fiction"? The only time I ever learned about global warming in my public middle and high schools was when my conservative history teacher criticized it.
dc98 Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 10:14 AM
The question is, do you think the public schools are doing a good job teaching the children today? I think 50,60 years ago the children had a much better education without the political correct curriculum of todays schools. And its getting worse each year.
jrobson Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 11:03 AM
www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/MomsPDFs/DDDoA.sml.pdf

(This is the second part of an ongoing series on federal "Common Core" education standards and the corruption of academic excellence.)

The Washington, D.C., board of education earned widespread mockery this week when it proposed allowing high school students -- in the nation's own capital -- to skip a basic U.S. government course to graduate. But this is fiddlesticks compared to what the federal government is doing to eliminate American children's core knowledge base in English, language arts and history.

Thanks to the "Common Core" regime, funded with President Obama's stimulus dollars and bolstered by duped Republican governors and business groups, deconstructionism...

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