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Our children are nothing more than pawns to our “leaders”. The government has one goal: to make useful idiots to support their insatiable lust for power.
So the assertion is that Common Core will level the playing field and eliminate White Privilege. So what did the trillions of dollars spent on the Department of Education accomplish? The graduation rate is the same. And now this “teacher” states that non-white children are not able to read.
David DeGerolamo
after reading this, it is the duty of all governors across the nation except for California , New York, New Jersey, Mass. to end in its entirety common core curriculum which is destroying the children’s mind .
Huh? The school drop out rate has been going down steadily for the last 24 years: http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=16
Also, where are the “trillions” of dollars for the DoE that you are referring to? Their budget is less than $100 billion.
http://blog.centerforpubliceducation.org/2014/02/20/high-school-graduation-rate-at-an-all-time-high/
Dr. Armand A. Fusco
I do not believe this number; I no longer trust government stats. I am a researcher, and based on on-going evidence, this number of 80% just doesn’t fly. Urban districts have a grad rate of about 50% (I just published a book, School Pushouts: A Plague of Hopelessness Perpetrated by Zombie Schools (2012). It is all researched based. In addition, I published School Corruption: Betrayal of Children and the Public Trust in 2005. It is full of cheating and deceitful practices of districts lying about their graduation rates. In Conn, according to Ed Week data, graduation rates are overstated by 20 points. And this is probably true in most other states.
The National Center gets their stats from the states and it is obvious their data is overstated and not reliable.
A quick approximation of the budget from 1980 (its inception) through now would be $45 billion. Times 35 years would be over $1.5 trillion. This is not including grants, Smart Start and other mandated programs. As for the quality of a high school education today vs. 30 years ago, I will submit that this is one of the reasons we have a child for your pResident.
You merely copied and pasted a blog comment, to which the article author (who is a senior policy analyst for the Center for Public Education) responded right beneath it. Basically, the standards for calculating drop-out rate have been tightened. And regardless, the improving trend seen by private groups tracking high school drop-out rates roughly matches that of the DoE.
1.5 trillion is hardly trillions though, right? And over 35 years, that’s like 0.5% of the US GDP tops. Also, Smart Start is not a federal program. I think you’re vastly overestimating how much we spend on education at the federal level.
So because I did not add up each individual year since 1980 but took a low figure to be cautious, 1.5 trillion is not trillions. Even though this year is $85 trillion alone. Comparing education to the GDP is a straw man argument. Adding in all of the money on education including the nationalization of college loans to enslave our children is not overestimating anything. The Dept. of Education needs to be eliminated.