Posted by admin On May 28, 2015 1 Comment
By The Staff | The Save Jersey Blog
No more than mere weeks away from an anticipated presidential campaign launch, Governor Chris Christie’s long retreat from Common Core just reached the next level Thursday afternoon during remarks on New Jersey academic standards at the Burlington County College’s Geraldine Clinton Little Theatre in Pemberton.
“It’s now been five years since Common Core was adopted,” the Governor declared in prepared remarks. “And the truth is that it’s simply not working. It has brought only confusion and frustration to our parents. And has brought distance between our teachers and the communities where they work. Instead of solving problems in our classrooms, it is creating new ones. And when we aren’t getting the job done for our children, we need to do something different.”
https://savejersey.com/2015/05/christie-abandons-common-core-its-simply-not-working/
If one were to have been looking for a beneficial aspect of having our RINO governor run for president and thereby have to at least head fake in the direction of a demonstrably necessary reform, this looks like it. Good riddance to Common Core curricular reform and PARCC testing.
I have to assume when the blog does not care for one persons comments then they never see the light of day do they/
try keeping comments relevant to the post ie… common core
Not so fast…Trenton’s Fred Flintstone is still enamored with PARCC testing. Does this have to do with the fact that the owner/operator of PARCC, Pearson Publishing, is headquartered in New Jersey?
“The Governor did, however, [direct] DOE Commissioner Hespe to assemble a group of parents, teachers and educators to reevaluate the situation to come up with new state-centric standards, and he renewed his support for the controversial Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) exams. “We must continue to review and improve that test based on results, not fear or speculation,” Christie declared. “I will not permit New Jersey to risk losing vital federal education funds because some would prefer to let the perfect get in the way of the good.””
PARCC is neither perfect nor nor good. It is perfectly worthless and needs to be jettisoned along with Common Core. The two stem from the same rotten ideology.
Some comments from the Web page of the source article:
Juan Newsome via Facebook on May 28, 2015 at 2:58 pm
If he goes through with it then thank God.. Gut it..
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Rob Giger via Facebook on May 28, 2015 at 4:03 pm
Duh! What else can I say?
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Suzi Que on May 28, 2015 at 8:06 pm
He believes NJ should keep the very expensive PARCC computer based testing which is closely linked to Common Core and despised by many? Follow the MONEY!
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Erik M Wood via Facebook on May 28, 2015 at 9:37 pm
It is worth noting here that NJ Senate president, Steve Sweeney has repeatdly refused to listen to citizen complaints about Common Core. He’s a corrupt and self annointed king who doesn’t care about the will of the people.
Let’s shake up the legislature and put them on notice that they work for us. Join the movement to recall NJ State Senate President Sweeney.
https://www.recallsweeney.com/2015/04/14/two-more-reasons-to-recall-sweeney/
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Columbus Strategies on May 28, 2015 at 10:48 pm
Common core was only adopted by the Governor. The legislature never had the opportunity to vote on it.
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Columbus Strategies on May 28, 2015 at 10:49 pm
If you want to stall making a real commitment and push the can down the road simply form a commission.
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Tracey Shannon via Facebook on May 29, 2015 at 8:25 am
Good Start, however, unless the PARCC test and anything by Pearson or the Gates Foundation is thrown out, it will only have been rebranded.This has happened in Indiana and South Carolina after they “got rid of it”. Even Mike Huckabee is on record as saying “just rebrand it” I have also been told that Hespe sits on the Pearson board. The curriculum is rotten to the core in so many ways and the PARCC aligns with it. The struggle is far from over. Too much money is involved and the UN global agenda. This is not going to be easy, and if Christie is really being sincere ,it is yet to be determined. PARCC is common core’s gate keeper, if it stays, common core stays. It is designed to make sure teachers are teaching what they want, not what the teachers want.
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Mike Kogelman via Facebook on May 29, 2015 at 11:27 am
How is he not a flip-flopper? Or are you going to tell me how that’s OK for some politicians but not others. Sort of like how Ted Cruz is in love with federal aid when TX is the affected state.
More Radicals for Common Core: The Pro-Amnesty Contingent
Apr. 18, 2013
My antennae go up whenever any education initiative is associated with radicals, like Bill Ayers. We still don’t know why Bill Ayers was at an education conference with Arne Duncan and a representative from Achieve, the well-connected, Washington-based non-profit organizing this effort to nationalize education.
But once I began investigating the curricula and test questions I learned that sure enough, the rigorous “standards” turned out to be nothing more than efforts to impose a curriculum that will make global citizens out of all American students. Or the kind of curriculum Bill Ayers would like.
Now I learn via Tina Trent that an organization called NALEO (National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials), a pro-amnesty group, co-hosted an event in Los Angeles last month on Common Core.
The NALEO Newsletter announced “NALEO Educational Fund last month co-hosted a national kickoff on the common core state standards, in partnership with the Campaign for High School Equity (CHSE) in Los Angeles.”
They quoted the official line from the Department of Education: “TheCommon Core State Standards Initiativeis a state-led, voluntary effort to establish a single set of educational standards for English-language, arts and mathematics that states can share and adopt. They are designed to ensure that students graduating from high school are prepared for college, employment and success in the global economy.”
Right.
The official propaganda continues: “State leaders, through their membership in the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA) Center, have developed a common core of state standards with the assistance of content specialists and education experts.” Common Core, of course, was passed without legislative approval and usually without legislative knowledge, as happened here in Georgia. That’s why Senator William Ligon introduced a bill to withdraw the state from Common Core standards.
So who are these “content specialists and education experts”? It turns out that they are usually radicals, like Bill Ayers’s “pal” Linda Darling-Hammond who is in charge of developing one of the two sets of the nationally administered tests.
The meeting sponsored by NALEO had the usual suspects, and not any traditional Core Knowledge Curriculum representatives in the tradition of E.D. Hirsch, who advocates learning about the literary classics and history: “The program in Los Angeles included local NALEO members and representatives from the NAACPNational Indian Education Association (NIEA), the South East Asian Resource Asian Center (SEARAC), the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)National Urban League, the Alliance for Excellent Education, the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rightsand the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).”
Trent, who opposed Georgia’s Hate Crimes bill more than a decade ago, says that these are many of the same radical groups who were pushing for hate crimes legislation. And as with the hate crimes law, non-profits are being empowered by the government to promote Common Core. “In the hate crimes model, non-elected non-profits were given vast powers to advise police and develop procedures for identifying and prosecuting so-called ‘hate,’” says Trent. “What we ended up with was the politicization of justice itself, and a handover of government powers to activist groups with an identity politics agenda.” She warns that Common Core is empowering the same activist groups through the federal educational bureaucracy–hardly a process in accord with our republican, representative form of government.
Common Core, it turns out, is just one more way, as she puts it, that we are “handing over government operations to politically driven non-profits.”
Pro-amnesty non-profit groups have been trying to indoctrinate school children about immigration for a long time now. They fought an Arizona law that prohibited teaching hatred towards certain ethnic groups (primarily white Americans), which a Mexican-American (“Raza studies”) studies curriculum did. Education professors have also been using their classrooms to lobby for amnesty. Common Core, the initiative of Obama’s Department of Education, may be the latest way they are trying to deny the sovereignty of the United States in students’ minds.
This information about NALEO and other groups is one more piece of evidence for opposing Common Core. Do we need any more?
For more information about Common Core, see my website,www.dissidentprof.com, where I have a section on Common Core and links to organizations that are fighting this unconstitutional takeover of education.