No Child Left Behind is almost a thing of the past! On Wednesday, December 9, the U.S. Senate passed, with ease, the Every Student Succeeds Act which will drastically alter how the federal government will undertake K-12 education. The bill has already passed the House and is waiting for Obama’s signature, who is supportive because of the failure of No Child Left Behind and Common Core. It has received bipartisan support, even though it transfers education policy to the States.
The Department of Education has lost a great deal of power, while States have been given much more oversight in the area how to use federal funds, intervention in failing schools and teacher evaluations. Another vital change is the prohibition of any federal government action to force states, or incentivize states to adopt Common Core. On the following page learn more about this positive legislation of the future of our children.
What common core did was prove comprehension of the material. Parents complaining that they were never able to “help” their child with homework prove the necessity of common core. Today you can find the answer to questions anywhere but can you understand it? Can you solve it yourself? Can you tell someone the how and why of it? Truly a sad day for the America Education System ranked 17th out of 40.
Glad its over but now we have kids that are behind and either be retrained the correct way or struggle till they catch up
No common core it is a waste of kids minds.
common core sucks, get rid of it NOW
Common core is the absolutely worst government dictated education program ever conceived
Get rid of this horrible curriculum!
Just gutting Common Core isn’t enough. Education has been so watered down it isn’t even funny. As a former teacher, and current substitute, I’m dumbfounded!
In the third grade I was taught to diagram a sentence, all parts of speech, today’s freshmen don’t know what a verb is!!!
It is by design. No doubt.
Thank you, Bill Gates, for your great ideas, including depopulation by vaccines and such.
Praying it really does go back yo control by the states.