Changing what we're forcing the teachers to teach

How state legislatures are tying teachers hands: first it was the Project Follow Through fall-out that changed our educational laws for the worse; now it's Common Core to magnify the damage even more.

                Too many of Project Follow Through’s faulty models have been legislated into mandatory curricula by state governments. Even good teachers who want to teach with better methods are stuck by law to use the worst. In the words of Bonnie Grossen, editor at the University of Oregon, who wrote:

                “Perhaps the ultimate irony of the PFT evaluation is that the critics advocated extreme caution in adopting any practice as policy in education; they judged the extensive evaluation of the PFT Project inadequate. Yet 10 short years later, the models that achieved the worst results, even negative results, are the ones that are, in fact, becoming legislated policy in many states, under new names.

                “That these curricular organizations can be so successful in influencing public policy, in spite of a national effort to reach world class standards and the results of scientific research as extensive as that in PFT, is alarming.” This was back in the 1990s, and it has been downhill since.

                Now add the Common Core disaster to our already mutilated educational system, and our children don't have a chance. It's up to parents to supplement at home, even if their children attend public or private school. Common core pigeon-holes a child's future at a young age, denying opportunities to those who don't test well. It is socialism and communism at its worst. Just say NO to Common Core!

                Mom, Dad, Grandma, Auntie, please help your children with early reading the right way - The Godfrey Method of phonics. It's also a good idea to supplement math with a good curriculum that is based on the classic, proven methods. Anything that says "reform" math - isn't. None of these changes to math and reading in our educational system have been beneficial, as proven by the continuing educational decline. The fact that legislatures have mandated the faulty methods into law is appalling. You, family, are the key for your child's success!

Just say NO to Common Core and Whole Language (sight reading)! 

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