Bill Gates Admits His Common Core Experiment Is A Failure

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After spending hundreds of millions on Common Core, Bill Gates has finally admitted that the controversial teaching method is a failure.

After spending $400 million on forcing schools around the country to adopt Common Core, Bill Gates has finally admitted that the controversial teaching method is a failure, and significantly less effective than traditional teaching methods. 

Parents and teachers across the nation have been urging schools to dump the toxic Common Core curriculum, arguing that it deliberately dumbs down children and creates unnecessary and complicated methods for working out relatively simple problems.

The Gates Foundation has spent more than $400 million itself and influenced a staggering $4 trillion in U.S. taxpayer funds towards making Common Core the mandatory curriculum across the country. Eight years later, however, and after a huge wave of disapproval, Bill Gates is finally admitting that his and Barack Obama’s baby, Common Core, is a failure.

Based on everything we have learned in the past 17 years, we are evolving our education strategy,” Gates wrote on his blog as a preface to a speech he gave in Cleveland. He followed this by admitting that U.S. education has essentially made no improvement in the years since he and his foundation — working closely with the Obama administration — began redirecting trillions of public dollars towards programs he now admits failed our children.

The bad news is that Gates is now talking about a new idea for school curricula, a Common Core 2.0, if you will. After the devastating failure of Common Core, should Bill Gates be given the opportunity to have any say in the way our children are educated in the future?

If there is one thing I have learned,” Gates said in concluding his speech, “it is that no matter how enthusiastic we might be about one approach or another, the decision to go from pilot to wide-scale usage is ultimately and always something that has to be decided by you and others the field.” If this statement encompasses his Common Core debacle, Gates could have the humility to recall that Common Core had no pilot before he took it national.

But it looks like this is as close to an apology as we’re going to get, folks. Sorry about that $4 trillion of tax payers’ money wasted and sorry about those ruined years of education for American K-12 kids and teachers.

Why is Bill Gates setting our students up to fail?

One of Common Core’s defining characteristics is the way it “dumbs down” many concepts and has students take too many steps to reach conclusions that are obvious to those of us who were schooled the traditional way. Teachers have been pulling their hair out across the country trying to implement the failing system, when they know the traditional teaching methods are far superior.

[RELATED – Florida School Ditches Common Core – Soars To Number One]

But Bill Gates is not suggesting we go back to traditional methods that have been tried and tested over hundreds of years. Gates is now pushing for the implementation of Next Generation Science Standards, a “cousin of Common Core”, (which academic reviewers rate as even lower quality than Common Core).

Experiments in New York and Louisiana, the latter of which Gates cites, have not produced proven improvements for student achievement. Gates is planning to experiment with our children’s education all over again, without any evidence that his bright new idea will reap any benefits.

The most likely outcome is the historically most frequent outcome from big-bucks philanthropy in public education: another disaster, just like Common Core. And another generation of children who don’t receive a quality education.

It’s going to take a lot more than acknowledging Common Core’s failure to make up for the years of classroom chaos that the Gates/Obama curriculum inflicted on many teachers and students without their consent. A direct apology and a promise to stay away from our kids and their education in the future would be a start.

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81 Comments

  1. After spending $400 million on forcing schools around the country to adopt Common Core, Bill Gates has finally admitted that the controversial teaching method is a failure, and significantly less effective than traditional teaching methods.
    ummmm wakey wakey…… that was the whole plan.. the plan has been a ultimate success….
    Who writes these bullshit stories

  2. Does Bill Gates even bother to talk to actual educators to see what works and what doesn’t? For someone that seemed smart, he is an idiot. I am so glad my kids missed using Common Core…it would’ve destroyed their education.

  3. Well, everyone knows — despite exceptions — that every generation over the past 100-150 years has been getting more and more retarded by the decade. How can adopting something that never used to work (when things were better) possibly begin to fix this?

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    • As a whole, society is much more intelligent then we were 100-150 years ago. You go back 100 years and most people had about a 5th grade education. You go back 150 years and a large percentage of people are illiterate.

      • That is total bullshit. A 5th grade education back then taught more than a college education nowadays, which most unanimously believe is just rehashing High School at its core while tacking on mostly ineffective “liberal arts” courses.

        Most people nowadays cannot prepare their own meals, cannot understand social and body language, cannot take care of themselves, and cannot fend for themselves, and are hooked on drugs. The motor skills of the modern man are that of a retard of times past. Many humans nowadays can no longer digest grass grains, lactose, or meats without major issues. The modern man is an autistic pile of UNindividualistic, genetically defective shit. Personality now sparks during childhood and dies throughout adolescence.

        The intellect is so BAD that double-digit IQs are flooding humanity at a record pace and Mother Nature is responding with cancer, Alzheimer’s and other diseases and disasters to wipe them out before all of humanity is destroyed by literal retards. The peak of humanity was the late 19th century. Socially, the peak of humanity was the 20th century.

        It is SO bad nowadays that people are offing themselves left and right because they can’t even find a measly butt-buddy in fucking Middle and High school and can’t get laid after being alive for 30 and even 40 years because half of the West has nothing there. Divorces are at an all-time high. The very idea of friendship is almost gone completely and is now a metric on social media. Soul-level connections now seem to require divine appointment.

        It is no coincidence that after last decade literally everything is regressing lower than it has been in now hundreds of years if you don’t count the industrial revolution. And with “modern liberalism”, humanity is reaching new LOWS never seen before. Don’t even open your mouth with the disease mantra. We got rid of diseases by STERILIZING our society, not vaccinating or drugging it.

        • LOL! Not sure what college you attended to get that impression of college level curricula (University of Phoenix or comparable “for profit” institution, perhaps?), but it doesn’t sync up with any of the ones I’ve attended. It’s not even close. It’s not even close to the, shall we say, “Less academically stringent” for profit school that a former corporate employer had contracted to train those of us it employed in the IT Department to be proficient in the various skills needed for the job and prepped to take/pass the industry standard certification exams for those skills. Wherever it was, sounds like you should fight for a refund. Not to pile on and bash where you live, but it sounds like a war zone or somewhere ravaged by a natural disaster or five. Despite occurring several years ago, apparently, you’re still several years away from recovery. Perhaps that refund can be used to relocate somewhere else? Anyway, good luck with all that. Hopefully, a change in scenery, coupled with some experiences gathered from places that have a different zip code than your home address can broaden your outlook and help you to get a more accurate perception of life. God bless…

          • Fingal isn’t far off the mark….. I mean look at you for example……Mr. No it all. Open mouth…insert foot. Typical frat boy? A teacher? ……. a math teacher? A math teacher in California? Common core is some sore spot for you that’s for certain……

          • Fingal is way off the mark. The average IQ has been rising steadily ever since we started taking records. The US and the rest of the world has it’s fair share of problems, but overall, the world is a much better place to live in now than it’s ever been. It’s easy to be a pessimist.

          • Look at me? O.K. Just from reading my post, you should know that I’m a computer/network technician, based on the sentence that contains “…employed in the IT Department…” in it (IT stands for “Information Technology”, if you were unaware). I do spend time teaching some of my neighbor’s kids how to build and/or work on computers, as well as some things that computers can be used for. I don’t think of myself as a “frat boy” or “know it all”, although, I do know that you meant “know it all” despite your using “Mr. No it all”. But, people make mistakes, so let’s put that aside. However, I do know what I know. I know that a lot of the common core techniques, especially in math, lend themselves towards making people that use them much better at tasks like troubleshooting, problem solving and so forth. With the cost of computing coming down daily and the amount of people having a computational device (desktop p.c.,laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc) with an internet connection increasing daily, having the ability and mindset to apply troubleshooting and problem solving skills and ability to research ways of using them become way more important than straight memorization of things like multiplication tables, etc. The reason being, is the stuff that was once important for people to have memorized can know be saved on the afore mentioned devices or retrieved from the internet, almost instantly, making the ability to use the data more valuable. Plus, when people use/work with the data, they tend to memorize it anyways. That is the reason why common core was developed and why educators were looking at ways to modernize teaching methods and curriculum. So, while common core might not have worked as well as it was envisioned, it is a step in the right direction and we, as a society, need to understand that. We need to push forward to adjust things within it to correct what isn’t working and to continuously seek to improve it as we move into the future. We need to be willing to look at what other nations are doing to successfully improve their educational systems and look to incorporate what we can to improve ours. That’s been a big part of America’s success in other areas, historically. No sense in not applying that “Melting pot” mentality to our educational system as well. We can’t go back to what was successfully preparing people to live in the 1960’s, 70’s or 80’s and expect it to be just as successful at preparing people in the 2020’s and beyond. The world and the skills used to build it are completely different now, than they were then. The sooner we understand, except and embrace that, instead of stubbornly clinging onto past success and accomplishments, the better off and happier we will all be!

          • O.K. Look at me. Frat boy? Never joined one and prefer a tight circle of friends and family, rather than large crowds of people I don’t know, yet call friends. Also, I don’t refer to most things as being “epic” or “sweet” and to others as “Bruh” (i.e. “Hey, Bruh! Goin’ to the kegger over at D.P.’s this weekend, it’s going to be epic! You are? Sweet! Catch you there. Later, Bruh!). So that’s a “No”. As mentioned in my post, I’m an I.T. professional, no teacher or anything else. My stance on Core Curriculum is that there are a lot of positives to it, some of which are critical in developing the mind in the way that allows it to be able to tackle troubleshooting and problem solving tasks. Those skills are already important and will become increasingly so as we move forward. I think a lot of it should be kept in place in the overall general curriculum plan for our public schools. Where I would tend to lean on more traditional methods, is in the area of English studies that emphasize the ultra importance of reading, writing and communication skills. I would call for that to be expanded from just English to two or three languages two and a computer programming language, perhaps). Because, ultimately, no matter how expansive a society’s technical ability is, it’s doomed to be forgotten, thus irrelevant, if it doesn’t have the ability to describe it (vocabulary, language), record it ( written word) and the ability to pass it on to their descendants and other cultures (books/reading, communication). I think that’s the area where Core and S.T.E.M. lose their way, in that not enough emphasis (real or perceived) is put on that area of education. So, no “Sore spot” on that topic. Other than the fact that I do live in California, you were way off base and where you got those impressions is a mystery. Even though I’m not a “know it all”, I do know the difference between “no” and “know”, including how they are used. Instead of whining about people that share their knowledge, you could make the effort to further educate yourself and add something to society other than snide comments.

      • Have you ever compared the knowledge imparted to American students these days to those of other nations? Common Core is a plan to dumb down Americans the education system here is rubbish. We need to get it back on track.

        • I don’t disagree, but to say we are dumb compared to 50 or 100 years ago is just incorrect

        • Common Core doesn’t “dumb down” the material. It’s simply a method of teaching which provides multiple ways of solving a problem. The idea is to give students a more comprehensive understanding of why they are getting the right answer; not just how. Some people like it….some people don’t. Most of the dissent I’ve seen, however, comes from people who do not truly understand what Common Core is.

  4. It finally comes out huh? Bill Gates was behind that garbage, he’s also spreading disease throughout the globe with FORCED immunizations. This all needs to come to the surface, and him and others need to be held responsible.

  5. No, no, no! Keep Bill Gates away from our children! Its going to take years to recover as it is, without his dimwitted ideas added to the problem!

  6. There should be a class action suit against every private and public promoter of Common Core Standards. Those failing to succeed in gaining a useable skill, and every student failing a college entrance exam for the next 15 years should be awarded $50,000 tax free as a reward for their unknowing and crippling participation in this sick scheme. The proceeds should be placed in an individually owned account to be drawn on for 10 years until depleted.

    • Only if said funds are provided by this gaggle of shitheads, primarily by Odumass and Gates, that supported and promoted Common Core. NOT by taxpayers.

  7. So Gates, who wanted to study law but dropped out of Harvard after two years, was considered by Obama to be some kind of education guru?

    • That writing of DOS and hobby of founding/running Microsoft really got out of hand and ruined his life. Someone that taught themselves, as well as learned, through the collaboration process, from with other, like minded people in the various computer clubs that existed back in the 70’s (as those clubs were basically ALL of the computing scene at the time) enough about computers and how the hardware components worked/interacted with one another to write an operating system as good or better than what was available, probably does have relevant insights on learning/education and problem solving, amongst other things. Making the moves that led to DOS becoming the virtual “de facto” industry standard at the time shows he learned quite a bit about business from somewhere, as well. Granted, the techniques were more Rockefeller/Carnegie era inspired than what the modern era finds acceptable, but no dolt or simpleton could have pulled anything remotely close to that off. Being the major force in the creation/writing of the first few Windows versions shows he was no “one trick pony”, “flash in the pan” or fluke, either. Say what you want about common core, but let’s be honest about the parties involved that were opposed to it from day one, publically and worked against it behind the scenes because it encroached on their “turf” and would cause disruption to their revenue flow and channels of influence. Parents and old head education types, without any awareness or experience with computers and how they were changing the way the world works, were wetting themselves as well as serving to poison the mindset of the kids about to start or were starting to go through it by the constant complaining about it being different than what they had and therefore it’s automatically stupid and wrong. Hearing that crap, ad nauseum, from parents, family members and trusted adults tends to close a child’s mind from trying to work with it, let alone having a chance of understanding and implementing it to have a chance of success. In both an ironic and tragic result, the closed minded outlook that served to close the minds of their offspring and weren’t doing any favors to others that were open to looking it over, but hesitant to do it, none the less, lost out on perhaps the most important aspect/skill that the program was designed to impart on those partaking of it. That being a “nimbleness of mind”, a mind open to looking at things from multiple viewpoints and making decisions based on which of them to use in the way of problem solving, matching real world applications to technologies and/or inventions from theory all the way to actual R & D and most other types of situations that are a part of the process in computing enabled jobs and in designing the software, machinery and such that are used in an ever growing list of industries and job fields. Having a close minded, head in the sand mentality never ends well for those that cling to it and the longer people insist that diagramming sentences and memorizing a twelve by twelve multiplication table made previous generations of American students great and is the ONLY way to make future ones great as well, are doing themselves, their children and basically all Americans a disservice and hinder the education process from staying current and reflecting the caliber of intellect, curiosity and thoughtfulness that American (pre 2,000’s America, at least) history and prosperity suggest should be in place to support continuation and further expansion of it.

  8. STOP treating the school kids like lab rats – get back to basics, reading writing and arithmetic, real history not pie in the sky lib crap, real math so kids can actually make change and balance a checkbook, what is wrong with writing in cursive – done properly the writer can be proud of their accomplishment, My favorite course was shop I learned basics in woodworking, home wiring basics, welding and metal working. All of my basic schooling has stood me in good stead even morning homeroom when we all stood, hand over heart and recited the pledge of allegiance (with or without the words “under god”) – students choice. Enough with the “which bathroom will I use today” bullshit. Instilling pride and respect in our country has to start somewhere, teachers can’t be expected to do it all, parents need to step up and do their part as well.

  9. Bill buddy….you are a bright, very rich guy, with good intentions, and you have absolutely no humility. You think because you have excelled beyond all belief in one field that you are universally knowledgeable. WRONG! Go work incognito as a substitute teacher in a rough district for a year. You might learn something. As it stands you are a dangerous and destructive dilettante. If you want to do something useful, figure out how to create a university that does not cost so much and which produces an excellent product. IMO the easy access to student loans and grants has had an very strong inflationary effect on the cost of higher education. If you could fix this it would be a wonderful thing to have accomplished. Also, if you need additional challenges take a look at why the cost of medical care has gotten so out of hand, and come up with a workable solution that does not involve wrecking the quality of medical care. Education has suffered through any number of expensive, destructive bright ideas. People who were looking to make their bones as innovators have sold governments and administrators on these sorts of things for years. There is money in it for everyone except the teachers. The damage that is done to students is by and large permanent.

  10. I believe he knew this to begin with! Common Core is the most stupid idea that ever happened! I can’t imagine anyone would ever think this would work!

    • Commie Core was never supposed to improve math scores. To the contrary, it was designed to SUPPRESS math scores. It was a playing field leveler. Comrade Obama knew he couldn’t raise the scores of millions of urban underachievers, so he sought to achieve a twisted type of educational parity by lowering the scores of everyone else. Obama did this by forcing our kids to learn math in the most unnecessarily difficult and convoluted way imaginable. It’s the same approach leftists like Obama use with the economy. Why improve the economic situation of the poor when you can achieve economic parity by making the rich poorer (and more miserable)?

  11. U.S. ed is still local!! The results are still highly dependent on high quality teachers, training, curriculum etc. When the public does NOT understand & blames standards for local choices instead of discussing solutions, we will continue to have problems.

  12. Suggestions:
    #1 No one can receive a driver’s license until they have a high school diploma or equivalent or reach 23 years of age.
    #2 Grades 1-6 teach nothing but reading, spelling, writing in English, basic math, health and personal fitness.
    #3 All 6th graders receive thorough sex education including pregnancy prevention.

    #4 Grades 7-9 add physical and biological science and government and economics.
    Any students with a final grade below C in any subject are placed in a remedial program until proof of grade-level competency is proven.
    Parents of students in remedial programs are encouraged to attend remedial classes until their student’s competency is proven.

    At the end of 9th grade any students with grades of C or below in any of those subjects are fed into a vocational trades track in 10-12.
    Only students with B+ or above in any of those subjects are fed into advanced/honors courses in those subjects.
    All students at all grade levels participate in a required summer reading program that becomes part of their reading grade.
    Homework is required in all subjects, is graded, and is part of the final grade. 1/2 hour each night for 1st grade, escalating to 3hr/night by 9th grade.

  13. Is this a crazy echo chamber thing? I came here just to learn a little about the topic, and this ‘article’ seems to weirdly harp on a few inflammatory opion-based points and not really provide any facts or stats, and one quote. It’s awfully melodramatic when it sounds like the announcement was more passive and non-specific.

    *googles yournewswire*.

    Oh yeah, okay, it is.

  14. Bill Gates is a typical eltist ahole who thinks that everyone else is stupid. His main claim to fame was the Windows operating system which did allow many people to use computers who were not really smart enough to use computers. He probably thinks he can make every day life as simple as windows so even the stupid can succeed at that too.

  15. Here’s a novel idea – how about we let the people trained in, and experienced in education determine what’s best?
    Do you let your plumber perform surgery on you?

    It’s time that people realize that simply having once been a student in a classroom, does not qualify anyone to make critical decisions about how to best educate our children!

  16. He needs to step back and allow teachers to actually teach our children and not mold them the way he wants. Why is he trying another? He failed, teachers want to teach, not do experiments with children. If my kids were still in school, I would home school. No brainwashing, no political molding, just straight education. Heaven help us

  17. Home schoolers have known Common Core was a joke from the get-go….which is why they home schooled their children. It is absolutely abominable. In the 60’s and 70’s, California had one of the best public school systems. Leftist liberals took over and it’s all gone down the crapper. California has some of the lowest scores in math in the entire nation. It wasn’t broke, Obama and Gates tried to fix it and now we have a huge mess. Go back to the tried and true ways of education. Get rid of political correctness, revisionist history and self esteem. Bring back recess and make PE mandatory.

  18. Much of the reason I took early retirement & am home educating my youngest. She has both long & short term memory issues and I knew the convoluted Common Core math would totally overwhelm her. She is working with Saxon 54, a very thorough and more traditional math system that stresses repetition. The WRAT and PIAT reading tests she was administered at age 10 showed her reading with comprehension at an 8th grade level. (Yes, we did phonics.)

  19. President Trump, tell Betsy Devos to get Bill Gates OUT of our Children’s education. Let him experiment on his children, if he even has any!

  20. This article is extremely slanted. I’m not saying I agree with common core – far from it – but your interpretation of Gates’ sentiments is far from accurate. Even the way you handle the direct quotes is misleading. I assume your intention is to lead your readers to a conclusion that fits with their previously held biases and beliefs. Education, and education policy is much more complex than you are intimating in this article. Judging from the comments however, it seems like a lot of readers are “armchair quarterbacks” for these issues. So, my comments will probably fall on deaf ears.

    • alot of your “armchair QB’s” are teachers. do they not know what they are talking about? Unlike most parents I actually understood common core math, it was overly complicated and used reverse methods for what you were trying to do. CC never worked in higher mathmatics or even for use in common usage , like making change.

  21. Thanks Obama and Gates, pull down the top students to make it look like the bottom students have improved.

  22. Gee Mr. Gates, maybe just maybe if you litened to conservatives instead of libtards and your internal progressive dialog, you wouldn’t lead the entire country down a decade long path to abject failure.

    Where do the kids you screwed over go for a re-do?

    You’re a disgrace.

  23. Common Core needs to be dropped completely. One wonders if it is a plan to ‘Dumb Down America’? We need to get our education system back on track if the up and coming members of our work force are going to be competent.

  24. This elitist should have absolutely NO SAY in what or how our children are educated! Guess what Bill…You learned the traditional way! Are you saying your education is lacking? If so, you should not be involved in anything involving our children. Keep your ideas to yourself, or go to third world countries and experiment.

    • Common Core was the third step in the master plan…
      First, take over the control of the system from the States. Use Unions to centralize control of the teachers, require the States to pay into the Department of education budget, and permit standardization.
      Second, Implement No Child Left Behind (NCLB), requiring the States to adopt federally mandated quotas, rating systems, hiring policies, in other words all federally controlled. When No Child Left Behind proved impossible because it could not succeed in the goals of “leveling the playing field”, it had to be abandoned..
      Third, make an escape route that would ease the idiocy of NCLB, and avoid federal responsibility for the failure. Make the public believe that a revolutionary educational system has been discovered that will cure all ills in the current system, and make American students able to compete with each other,(on a level playing field) and with the students of other advanced nations. This magical system must be force-fed to the public and they must be made to think that it was their collective idea.
      Fourth, The Common Core State Standards Initiative. So as the name implies, the State Standards have been agreed to by the States. Some States didn’t think so….in order for the Federal Govt. to get this done they had to give the states some incentive.They were forgiven the necessity of participating in the failed NCLB, if they complied with Common Core State Standards they would be permitted to use the funds confiscated from them for that failure and they would join other states in the latest government fed attempt to “level the playing field”.
      The root cause of this never ending story is Federal Government’s incessant need to unlawfully intrude itself in every corner and crevice of your lives.

      This Common Core State Standards subject will be discussed for decades to come. It has so far nearly destroyed the reasoning functions of every child that has been subjected to it. During their most important brain development years their math skills instructions have removed logical thinking from their toolbox. Their language arts skills have been so distorted that many words in common use are now considered illegal. Many discussions that need to be had for a functioning society have been criminalized.
      I encourage any and all to study the current young generation’s progress and contributions that they may make to the Country as they mature. This may be a rough ride.

  25. I have asked every teacher for the last several years what they think about CC. Not one teacher spoke positively about it. The fact of the matter is, one of the reasons our education is so crappy is because of the huge numbers of foreign and illegal immigrant students. We pay, on average $11k a year per kid in this country k-12. Illegals probably even cost more because they have to be given all the freebies, lunch, breakfast, etc. It slows down the whole class because you have to first teach them English and then teach them everything else.

  26. Bill Gates what is going on?
    It’s about time you make my dreams come true. Especially after frying two wires and making me become PARALYZED like in 1997. I have had it…
    Please make a PAYMENT! I have been slandered by the WORLD. I have been inappropriately disrespected on Facebook. My face has been copy cut and paste to everything imaginable and I am an ANGEL.
    QUIT INVESTING MONEY THAT IS NOT YOURS TO INVEST AND MAKE IT WORTHWHILE TO ME THE VICTIM…

  27. why do socialists think it’s o.k. to try out or mold people in general,p.i.g, as it they are gods? School vouchers!

  28. Republicans said it was before Obama implemented it. You can have 10 doctorate degrees, but that doesn’t mean you are intelligent or have common sense I guess, many liberal college professors prove that to us daily, many liberals do the same, and even Bill is guilty.

  29. The fact that he would admit he was wrong puts him light years ahead of your run of the mill liberal who watches his program crash and burn, then blames the right for it’s failure. He’s a bright guy and deserves to, if nothing else, be listened to. Many successful people only became that way after learning from their mistakes.

  30. Home School your children. They will learn how to write (I mean actually move the pencil in a way that is legible), read, and do Math in ways that make sense to you and to them. So much of how I learned is now gone from the classroom (penmanship, spelling, grammar, mastery of basic Math facts, History, etc. etc.) and children are, without question, suffering from the lack of fundamentals in instruction.

  31. So they, I believe, have a warrant for his arrest in India due to the polio like paralysis of young children from his vaccines, women in Africa are having spontaneous miscarriages because of his “help” when just providing clean water and sanitation would have done so much more! With Common Core, students have to go through about five steps to add 2 and 2!!! SERIOUSLY!!! Not only that, if the student gets the correct answer and not followed the long process, their answer is WRONG!!!
    For such a nerd looking guy, he’s really quite dangerous!!!!

    • Nefarious intent? His recommendations are so ridiculous, it beggars belief that he is actually trying to improve our system of education.

      • Unfortunately, in this day and age, whenever anyone wants to “help” us, we MUST ask the age old question, “What’s in it for them?” Otherwise they wouldn’t bother to help you!!!

    • OK, but none of what you said is true. No warrant for his arrest in India. And you obviously have no idea about what it means to really develop a deep understanding of the foundations of math.

      • Correction: He can’t go back to India,ever! Approximately half million children are paralyzed. The paralysis trend ended as soon as withdrawal of Gate’s vaccine!
        As far as “…what it means to really develop a deep understanding of the foundations of math”. Really?

        • Sorry. Deleted previous comment. Responded to the wrong person! Haven’t been on DISQUS in a while. Lost my touch. Agree with you. Disagree with @disqus_Q3l0qs8aJT:disqus.

      • Perhaps. Just perhaps, we don’t all need a ‘DEEP understanding of the foundations of math’. Perhaps we need to first learn the mechanics of simple math. THEN, if somebody finds that they have an interest or aptitude for math, or a desire for a STEM career, then they can develop that deep understanding.

        Your comment echos the emphasis on a 4 year college degree that’s crippled our country and created several crises; a debt well over $1T, AND a shortage of craftsman. Not everybody will benefit from a college degree. There are legions of college grads that haven’t benefited in any way from their degrees. AND they don’t have the ability to pay off the debt that resulted from their worthless degrees.

        Were you aware that an electrician can easily make a 6 figure income after about 10 years in the field? Plumbers, HVAC techs, machinists, the same.

        • You misunderstand what I mean by “deep understanding”. I’m not talking Boolean Geometry, I’m talking the four basic operations, fractions, decimals. Even electricians must understand basic algebra to deal with conversions and how lengths of wire affect amps, etc. I am talking about the very basics. If kids don’t understand those things other than as procedures to get the right answer to please their teacher we create kids who hate math, avoid math, and avoid careers that involve even the most rudimentary math.

    • I sense a mental illness with his obsession of believing he is helping while hurting! NEVER forget, he’s one of the peeps who believes in depopulation!!! Like his dad!

  32. Common Core is not a teaching method, you idiot. It’s a set of standards. You don’t even know what you’re railing against.

    • Wow. Straight to ad hominem.

      While technically you’re correct, can you admit the possibility that the resultant curricula that have been influenced by misguided standards are a BIG problem.

      I know nothing about you, but perhaps you have no direct knowledge implementing those standards in the classroom, with those hideous curricula?

    • Common Core IS a set of standards. The standards, at least the math standards of which I have researched as both a former math teacher and a parent since their inception, are based on recommendations from the NCTM, the math education research organization. NCTM has recommended since the 1990s that early math education needs to be more conceptually grounded, less procedural. It’s called “the math wars”. CCmath adopted the NCTM recommendations. The problem was when David Coleman directed the writing of the CCmath, he had them start from college and work backwards, which ended up pushing material into earlier grades. Kindergarten is now the old 1st grade, etc.

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  34. Common Core has been around since 2000…its Bush era thing…like the free phones. But anyways I switched from Saxon Math to Common Core in 2001-2002 year after moving to Michigan. They never taught me anything about math..went up doing algebra and moved back for my final year in the 2004-2005 year and had to be put in basic Business Math and do it in the special education class room. Apparently drawing pictures on a T9 is considered math by CC standards

  35. All Common Core does is make the children think their parents are stupid because we can look at the problems and give the child the proper answers but the teachers mark them wrong because they didn’t follow “the proper steps”. Numbers have to be broken up and put into circles with lines going every which way. Reading comprehension questions are marked wrong when the child doesn’t draw circles around the part of the story where he found the answers or he used the wrong color pencil, etc. My grandkids come to me because I used to work with engineers and can at least understand many of the complicated directions they are being asked to follow. The child is frustrated because he doesn’t comprehend what he is being asked to do. The parents are frustrated because they can’t help the child because they don’t understand the methods. I can just bet the teachers are frustrated too because the parents are calling and venting on them for inventing absurd methods to get to simple answers. On top of all that, they wasted huge amounts of taxpayer money and the kids can’t do the math and can’t read.

    • I disagree. All CCmath does is point out the very superficial and procedural level of understanding that most parents have about early mathematics. All of us know people who are more than happy to announce to the world that “they are not math people”. Well, the math that CC advocates for was developed through research (and is nothing new really). What CCmath intends to do is develop students with a much more deep understanding of elementary mathematics, so that when they get to Algebra 1 and beyond they do not become a part of the national (for many decades) 50% fail rate. Students today are required to go much higher in math than their parents were required to do. Natural screening that allowed those with more natural understanding of math to go on while those that were not math inclined, had options out of higher math does not exist today. CCmath is designed to give all students the knowledge that more mathematically inclined students learn almost instinctively. That is why it often looks convoluted. But it is the kind of math that most top math students do in their head, that those who “hate math” never learned. Like “counting up or down”….to add 357+218 “in your head”…..357+100=457+100=557+10=567+8=575. Looks convoluted but is what “smart” people do in their head. What is wrong with just pointing it out to students, why keep it a secret?

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