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DesideriScuri -> RE: Common Core (11/26/2013 5:55:37 AM)
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ORIGINAL: leonine
When my son needed to get a job in the US, he checked and found that the surest way was to get a teaching diploma here in the UK. He explained that when "No Child Left Behind" called for lots more teachers, but didn't provide any extra money to train them, the target was met by dropping the standards and turning out "qualified" teachers who knew less than their classes. So any school that can afford it, hires teachers with foreign diplomas.
So yes, some of the US trained ones may well be outraged that they're now being expected to do a job they were never trained for.
WARNING!!! Good-natured ribbing ahead!
[ribbing]So, we've been outsourcing the training of our teachers to the UK?!? No wonder my kids didn't know why 1776 and 1791 were important. [8D][/ribbing]
That's part of the problem we have in this country; if we don't have enough people meeting the standard, we just lower the standard. Rather than work to improve those not meeting the standard, or putting out incentives for people to improve themselves to meet the standard, we lower the standard. It's quite distressing, imo.
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Much ado has been made about CC and proficiency standards based on race. It's also been much about truly nothing. Many criticize certain states that have different proficiency goals based on race, but ignore that it isn't individual proficiency, but aggregate proficiency.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/20/florida-education-race-based-goal_n_1991258.html
http://www.blackenterprise.com/news/florida-defends-different-school-standards-for-different-races/
FLA has set different standards for 2018, based on race. But, it reflects the reality that there are different proficiency gaps. With hypothetical numbers (purely hypothetical), if whites are proficient to 80% now and blacks are proficient only to 60%, would setting the 2018 bar at 90% for both groups truly be achievable, with the 2023 standard to be 100% for both groups? Or, would it be more realistic to have the white students' standard by 90% and the black students' standard to be 80%? Both reflect halving the proficiency gap from the current mark.
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This is something that could happen with Obamacare, as the need for physicians may rise dramatically while current medical school enrollment is effectively limited.
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