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The 2nd Annual MENA Common Core Conference will provide professional development to American curriculum schools in the region on effectively employing Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in the classroom. Our mission is to unite for one common goal: To be the most successful schools and teachers for our students while implementing CCSS.
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On October 24 and 25, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region will gather in Dubai,to learn about the Common Core State Standards, share curricula and best practices, and network with each other. The event will unite administrators, teachers, and schools around improving teaching and learning for all of our students.
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Dubai anyone?
 
SuperLuigi said:
Actually, it’s local school boards that should have control over education, not the federal government.
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Honestly, until the 2001 reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Schools Act (which guarantees free public schools at both the elementary and secondary level), which was renamed No Child Left Behind, the federal government had a role in education, but it was fairly small. Most of the fed’s role in education had to do with making sure the education received by children with disabilities (through the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) and children in poverty (through the Title I program) were equitable. The federal government has also always been the chief regulator of the school lunch program, which was done at the behest of the Dept. of Defense. It was the individual states that had the primary control of education (local school boards are actually deputized by each individual state’s department of education to take care of business at a local level - they’re kind of like franchises of a large restaurant chain).

When NCLB was passed in 2001, it mandated, nationwide, that states create new, standards-based exams - and tied federal education money to it. If a state opted out of NCLB (which was its right), the federal government not only would withhold the new money that was to be used to develop the test, but it would withhold all Title I and IDEA funds as well. So, the states created their own tests. But the creation of the tests was cost-prohibitive. It was thought that authorizing a third party to create a multi-state common test would save money. But of course, a multi-state test meant that the states needed to have the same standards. So, the states pooled their moneys together and formed the Common Core initiative - to standardize their standards and create a common test. Common Core is not federally mandated; only a standards-based test is. Common Core is, however, federally encouraged by Arne Duncan’s Dept. of Education “Race to the Top” initiative, which ties federal incentive money to results based on the PARCC (the main test for Common Core State Standards).

It’s strange. Honestly, people on both sides of the aisle have criticized Common Core, and people on both sides have embraced Common Core. Yet both the greatest adherents and the greatest detractors of Common Core have come from the GOP (Dems generally don’t like Common Core but are usually afraid of taking a stand on it due to political repercussions).
 
powerofk said:
When NCLB was passed in 2001, it mandated, nationwide, that states create new, standards-based exams - and tied federal education money to it. If a state opted out of NCLB (which was its right), the federal government not only would withhold the new money that was to be used to develop the test, but it would withhold all Title I and IDEA funds as well. So, the states created their own tests. But the creation of the tests was cost-prohibitive. It was thought that authorizing a third party to create a multi-state common test would save money. But of course, a multi-state test meant that the states needed to have the same standards. So, the states pooled their moneys together and formed the Common Core initiative - to standardize their standards and create a common test. Common Core is not federally mandated; only a standards-based test is. Common Core is, however, federally encouraged by Arne Duncan’s Dept. of Education “Race to the Top” initiative, which ties federal incentive money to results based on the PARCC (the main test for Common Core State Standards).
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When you come right down to it, No Child Left Behind really amounts to No Child Gets Ahead
 
Another parent with kids in catholic school using common core. I simply don’t like it. As other have mentiones math is crazy. I don’t see how it helps the kid to understand better if at the end of the day they cannot even come out with an answer to a simple subtraction or addition. All the steps are ridiculous and on the end in order to do basic math that takes two minutes they need half an hour. As to social studies I don’t like it either. In the bencark testing they frame a question to expect an answer that is not asked in the question or the kid has to guess what is that they are really asking. For example If they want to ask what is your name and for an answer they want your name, they frame the question like if two people that don’t know each other run onto each other on the street and start talking what happens? It is crazy.
 
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