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It is a good thing and there is nothing wrong or complicated about teaching to add like that.

So you're saying it's ok to force teachers to teach addition this way? Earlier you said that teachers should be able to teach on their own as long as they are teaching to the standards that are set.

I said it is good that kids think like this and it is good the questions on the test I took test their ability to think like this. I don't care how you to teach kids to think like this but it is good that they do.

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That's why business deals are calculated in Excel or with a calculator.

What a cop out but I agree they are used a lot and should be. But these young buyers I deal with miss so many opportunities it is crazy. Tell them you will give them 10 percent off on 10000 units at $72 and if they don't stop to enter it into a calculator they can't even guess how much money you just offered them. ($72000 for you slow guys reaching for a calculator.)

Look I don't want or see some bureaucracy being created around this. It is not a federal cram down as some of you think.

What we are basically talking about here concerning Common Core is a replacement test for leap that is at a higher level but emphasizes fewer things.

But what we really are talking about in this thread is how far Bobby Jindal will go to advance his political career.

He looks as if he is willing to go to court with BESE over a law he signed and promoted. He looks like he wants to prosecute BESE and White for corruption just to stop this test to say on the stump at the chili cookoff in New Hampshire he is against Common Core. It is shameful.

If the legislature had any courage they would launch an investigation into Jindal abuse of power in this case and in the Painter case (a case that may actually have impeachable offenses involved)

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Posted on 7/21/14 at 7:33 pm to BeaverPRO

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I don't see a heavy-handed fed behind this common core

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The U. S. Department of Education said in a letter to Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz that the state must prove its own standards are just as challenging, or else risk of losing its waiver from the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law and have its federal funding in jeopardy.

Your right that doesn't seem heavy handed at all.

So the Feds say "You can do it your way if you show us that it's at least as good as our standards, but if your plan is substandard, then we won't pay for it". What's wrong with that??? :bang head:

p.s. "You're", not "Your". When you are criticizing education, at least show that you have some.

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Posted by I B Freeman

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Posted on 7/21/14 at 9:14 pm to LSU80 USF08

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p.s. "You're", not "Your".

Thanks

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So the Feds say "You can do it your way if you show us that it's at least as good as our standards, but if your plan is substandard, then we won't pay for it". What's wrong with that???

The feds say our standard now is ok. Indiana could adopt our test.

It is no child left behind Indiana risks losing if they don't replace the test. It has nothing to do with CC except that the CC testing had been approved and now they are backing out of that the DOE was putting them on notice they had to replace the test.

HEY I would welcome and end to no child left behind and the teacher's unions that have benefited so much from it.

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Posted on 7/21/14 at 9:26 pm to Vols&Shaft83

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