tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post5640971928613633532..comments2024-03-28T02:21:17.452-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: Let's Get Some Answers on K-12 Ed from Presidential CandidatesMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-72705386793602453862015-11-06T08:35:34.211-08:002015-11-06T08:35:34.211-08:00Outsider makes excellent points. A good path would...Outsider makes excellent points. A good path would be:<br /><br />3) urge presidential candidates to get the feds out of K-12 education to the fullest extent possible.<br /><br />Here is a piece on Common Core from Author<br /><br />Gilbert T. Sewall: director of the American Textbook Council in New York City. He is the author of Necessary Lessons: Decline and Renewal in American Schools and editor of The Eighties: A Reader.<br /><br /><a href="http://spectator.org/articles/64578/why-common-core-cracking" rel="nofollow"><b>Why Common Core Is Cracking Up</b></a><br /><br />-- Dan DempseyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-85941324177045727472015-11-05T10:28:51.454-08:002015-11-05T10:28:51.454-08:00I wonder, does it make sense to simultaneously:
1)...I wonder, does it make sense to simultaneously:<br />1) complain non-stop about federal mandates such as Common Core and testing, and shoot peas at the outgoing federal secretary of education<br />2) urge presidential candidates to take on K-12 education<br />I realize that the feds are unique among all levels of government in the ability to print money, and that gives them a sugar daddy quality. And sure, it's possible to be a sugar daddy and expect nothing in return. But there might be a counter-argument: the more important something is at a local level, the more the DC politicians should keep their mitts off it.<br /><br />There is a counter argument: the feds will always only be a wedge for forcing crony capitalists and social engineering into the schools, and will never make schools better no matter how much they spend.Outsidernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-61399470650443097602015-11-05T09:25:47.085-08:002015-11-05T09:25:47.085-08:00I think equally as relevant as high stakes testing...I think equally as relevant as high stakes testing is Common Core alignment and asking questions of Larry Nyland and the current SPS Board.<br /><br /><a href="http://mathunderground.blogspot.com/2015/11/naep-math-collapse-and-common-core.html" rel="nofollow"><b>NAEP Math collapse and Common Core connection</b></a><br /><br />How the SPS Board, who should be supervising Mr. Nyland, can be considering a contract extension for him at this time is incomprehensible.<br /><br />The district has failed to inform the public of the huge change in k-12 math scope and sequence, which is centered around an overly strict interpretation of Common Core math alignment.<br /><br />Then again the Board and the Administration failed to inform the public, so in the secret world of SPS, I guess this proposed raise and contract extension for Mr. Nyland all makes sense. .... Gotta git 'er dun before the new board is seated.<br /><br />-- Dan DempseyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com