“Just wait for the NEAP scores! Just wait for the NAEP scores” we were told. “We know what we are doing; Just watch them climb; We’re on the right track; don’t upset the applecart” they warned us.,….
We didn’t let it stop us. We told you the scores would be low because we ourselves were taking the tests and doing the homework assignments as the switch began occurring two years ago….
FACT: The greatest Delaware gain ever on the Educational Report Card came about from the policies put in place my the Minner administration. Since Markell put in his new policies, gains were flat, and are now dropping like rocks to the bottom of the pond.
Stripping those away and going with a corporate curriculum has denied most of Delawares children the better education they were on track to receive…..
….and with todays NAEP’s scores release, the data is now there to prove it….it’s no longer speculation. It is fact. Common Core is dumbing down children at a faster pace than every before recorded across the history of this test…..
So the irony exist that not only are they calling out your children for being stupid by taking a ridiculous test that not even adults can agree on which answer is right or wrong…… your child actually is not learning because of his involvement in this great experiment: letting corporations run education and getting rid of teachers…….
This was totally expected. We would have been very surprised to see any gains…
Here is the NAEP’s ranking of states….
Light blue is bad. Delaware is in the company of West Virginia, Kentucky, Alabama, and Mississippi… Not as in two years ago… sharing the spotlight with PA, NJ, MA, and CT. (You can notice the aforementioned upper Midwest bias by this map as well)
There is a problem. The states that shed Common Core did well. The states that embraced it did poorly…. That is all you need to know.
Get rid of Common Core and let teachers teach… or we will have our own companies going oversees to get their smarter job applicants…
Here is a link to Delaware’s snapshot of the NAEP….. and as you got to it, we will leave you with this quote…..
“I want to be known as the ‘education governor'”………. Jack Markell — State of the State speech
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October 28, 2015 at 3:55 pm
kavips
(This data is just exploding with new implications… Instead of watering down the article with updates, I’m putting them here in the comments… Add your own… if you find something….)
October 28, 2015 at 4:10 pm
john kowalko
Here is part of my response to an interview regarding my feelings as to why NAEP scores went down and my conclusion why. Very simply put Markell’s, Arnie’s, RODEL’s, Gates’, and all of the other for personal profit “education reformists” have foisted a failed system on our children with a horribly harmful result under the guise of a “common core” system that is ruining America’s and Delaware’s public education structure and willfully hurting children. Brief statement follows:
Scores down for NAEP
They’ve changed the curriculum. When they are now teaching algebra and geometry (under common core) in 3rd grade what are they not teaching or no longer teaching. If kids don’t truly understand and know multiplication, how are they going to perform the higher level skills required?
The NAEP is a generalized test given to kids all over the world. It is a consistent and reliable measure of comparison. You can’t “study” for It. So when we look at countries that do well (i.e. Finland/New Zealand) and see that their curriculums are nothing like what we have just adopted/imposed we should ask “what are we doing”?
Common Core is not a curriculum but it is so specific in its standards that it becomes a de-facto curriculum. Covering those prescribed “standards” forces teachers to teach only those skills. This presents two significant problems. There is no time for anything else and teachers are being handed a curriculum and much like the “Balanced Assessment Test”, it is being written (and profited from) by the same people who wrote common core who are (in most cases) not necessarily teachers in these fields.
October 28, 2015 at 4:15 pm
kavips
Above I mentioned that Minner had the greatest averaged gains… Let me show you just how pronounced….and how pronounced Markell’s failure is!
Minner’s Program………………Math 4 236 to 239….. Math 8 277 to 284
Markell’s Record………………..Math 4 239 to 239….. Math 8 284 to 280
Minner’s Program………………Read 4 224 to 226….. Read 8 265 to 265
Markell’s Record………………..Read 4 226 to 224……Read 8 265 to 263
Money for people has better dividends than money for corporate pockets.
October 28, 2015 at 4:25 pm
kavips
Thanks John.
Particular attention should be paid at the 4th grade. for over two years Common Core is all they’ve known. The 8 Graders were in 6th grade when Common Core began its intrusion, unless they were in a pilot class in which case it was 5th Grade. Meaning that the basics in their heads, taught the old school way, were already in place….
Although the above comment is misleading (there were gains in the Markell administration) it is safe to show that Common Core negated those gains so loses or flat figures are all we have to show for it….
The principal question on the tip of everyone’s tongue must be……..
We just spent $119 dollars of free money for education…. How can we still be at the same spot we were before we started… What was all that money used for?
Yep… WE JUST PISSED AWAY $119 MILLION DOLLARS… .
October 28, 2015 at 4:27 pm
kavips
Tomorrow’s Headline…. Markell is the ‘Florini of Education’……
October 28, 2015 at 4:39 pm
kavips
Here is a flashback to Delaware’s placement and rankings in 2013 ..
https://kavips.wordpress.com/2013/11/08/delaware-and-the-nations-report-card/
October 28, 2015 at 4:46 pm
kavips
“The very folks who gleefully hold public schools accountable based on scores, evade using them to evaluate their own pet policies. For those of us who had first row seats to the disruption and chaos they have caused, we have one simple message—no excuses…..” Valerie Strauss… Washington Post.
October 28, 2015 at 5:19 pm
Connie Merlet
Particularly disturbing in today’s article was Chris Minnich, exec. director for State School Officers, who really should know better, when he said- “As states raise standards it will take time for students and teachers to adjust.” The excuse of higher standards would explain scores on a test written for the standards, but the NAEP is not, as it is given internationally and is completely independent of any particular test. So how exactly would lower scores on the NAEP be the result of higher expectations? It would not, unless the quality of the education is actually going down. Aha- Common Core.
October 28, 2015 at 5:32 pm
kavips
Thanks for sharing…. Actually he is justified to attempt to throw the blame. Common Core was his baby in 2009….
October 29, 2015 at 11:09 am
kavips
All this goes to show just one thing……..
When you teach stupid……… you get stupid.
October 31, 2015 at 7:56 pm
kilroysdelaware
Reblogged this on Kilroy's Delaware.