re: Jindal wants Louisiana out of Common Core

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That's the thing with higher standards.

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Which means, it's optional.

Which means... IT'S NOT FEDERAL CONTROLLED.

It can't go both ways. Either it's federal controlled, or, it's optional.

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don't be so naive

That post doesn't help you at all. Those questions require kids to improvise and try to make use of the tools they have available, especially the crayon one.

You guys would prefer no change and continued education results rather than move on to a higher plane of thinking. And kids will suffer greatly for it.

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Common Core is all about application and logic skills

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That's the problem... too many TD posters don't have any logic skills, so to expect them to understand Common Core is asking too much!

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don't be so naive

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You truly are a fool.

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He was part of the group that created it. He also appointed a staunch common core supporter to run the dept of education.

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He is just building his cred with the right wing base.

I agree with this conservative commentator about this issue.

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And there is emotive opposition: Those who hate the testing regimens necessary to make performance standards work, most of them on the grounds that their own children are so special that they shouldn’t have to suffer such burdens. These last have influence.

Public education’s problems are legion, but few are more corrosive to student accomplishment — and to public confidence — than grade inflation. That was Duncan’s point.

For example: Former New York state Education Commissioner Richard Mills and the willful destruction of one of the nation’s strongest, and most trusted, performance benchmarks — the state Regent’s examinations.

A generation ago, nobody got an academic high-school diploma in New York without demonstrating — via the Regent’s tests — competence in a variety of subjects.

Then came Mills, and the decline began.

The goal: Improve graduation rates.

The means: Dumbing down the Regents’ tests.

Soon a lot more students were getting diplomas, but they were near to worthless; in New York City, a scant 31.4 percent of high-school grads in 2013 were ready for college work.

And then came Common Core, and the end of illusions:

In New York in 2013 — the first year of the program’s more rigorous new benchmarks — reading, writing and arithmetic scores dropped an eye-popping 30 percentage points from 2012. What to do? Kill the messenger, of course.

Here is something else to consider.

Jindal says Common Core is "federal overreach".

Yet, he, by himself, is trying to remove the state from something that was approved by many.

This is classic "governor overreach" if I ever saw it.

He is doing the exact thing he is accusing the feds of doing.

So you guys are clearly trying to compete with Alabama and Mississippi on the dumbest state lists. We'll have none of those fancy educational standards either.

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So how can you hate it so?

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Because Bobby Jindal is awesome!