Comments on: Kentucky Teachers Show Little Progress Under Common Core

By: jenni

jenni — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 23:58:32 +0000

With all due respect, I have no need of undergoing a screening process Linda. I AM A PARENT by the grace of God and that’s really all the screening I need. My God-given parental right to teach and direct my child through life trumps the ‘screening’ process of some liberal administrator who may or may not let my kids say the Pledge of Allegiance at school because it has the word GOD in it. Or the screening process that allows my child to be taught that Global Warming is SCIENCE and that in fact, the Earth, the great Gia should be their God. Or the screening process that tells them our Republic is actually a Democracy and proceeds to tell them how we must practice Social Justice in order to make sure all people are treated fairly. Thanks for thought, but I I’ll practice my right (and privilege) under Natural Law, to keep my kids home with me and train them up in the way they should go: so when they are old, they will not depart from it.

By: Susan Weston

Susan Weston — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:35:33 +0000

What the report actually says is that Kentucky does not require teacher candidates to take a specific number of credit hours in liberal arts subjects (science, history, art, and so on) to qualify for an elementary school teaching certificate. From that, the authors make an inference that elementary teachers will not be ready teach the common core standards. That’s a major leap, and it comes from people who have not looked closely at the professional collaborations actually happening in the Bluegrass State.

As a closer observer of Kentucky education than the authors, I will note that our teachers began studying the new standards as soon as they came out and that our districts are participating in a huge statewide capacity building effort around the standards. From that, I make the inference that, actually, Kentucky teachers at every level are making rapid progress. While they are not yet fully ready to teach our very demanding new standards, they are as ready as their peers anywhere in the nation now and energized to continue strengthening their skills and building the full capacities they will need to move many students rapidly toward our new expectations.

By: Linda Brees

Linda Brees — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:25:51 +0000

For every parents who has a genuinely good idea about education, there is at least one who doesn’t want evolution taught, or wants the Civil War termed the War of Northern Aggression or believes that the JFK was killed by the CIA. At least teachers and administrators have to go through some screening process before they get their jobs. Do parents?

By: MOMwithAbrain

MOMwithAbrain — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:36:32 +0000

WE went from NCLB which labeled the school as the “failure” to the teachers as the failure under Common Core.

Maybe it’s the Government INTRUSION into the schools and refusing that power to the parents, that is the true source of the failure??
I’m just sayin….