Warriors Against Common Core: how many times have I shared with you that the CCSS Machine seeks to encompass EVERY student..including adults? Young adults, just graduating high school and moving on in life; mid-life adults and/or older adults desiring to go back to work and needing education…you get the idea.
No matter how many times it has been we MUST talk about it more often! Yes, most anti CCSS Warriors are looking out for those who aren’t adults yet..I totally agree. However, with all the evidence out there to shine the light on the adult versions of CCSS, why aren’t more adults standing up and saying ‘NO’!?!? Warriors, we MUST look out for the grinding down of ANY student when it comes to the CCSS Machine!! We MUST protect every citizen from, not only the educational demise of America, but the workforce caste system embedded in CCSS/CTE!
A ‘Refresh’ for Your Adult CCSS/CTE Information:
If you are new to the blog, you may of missed one of the first articles I wrote about CCSS/CTE after high school; you may not of seen the CCSS Adult Standards, either. If you’ve been around the blog for a while, you know that every age group is targeted when it comes to CCSS/CTE. You know every educational choice being targeted is a purposed and planned step. New or not, please share the links below so everyone is your anti CCSS circle of influence can be as informed, prepared, and ready to fight this awful takeover of education!
1) For any student (regardless of where you graduated from) after high school:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2014/09/04/common-core-after-high-school-reality-check/
2) For the special needs students after high school:
Tech Thursday: CTE, CCSS, and Special Needs in Post Secondary Education
3) Perkins Funding (used in post-secondary education) reworked to support CCSS/CTE:
3a) Title 9 Funding is also used in post-secondary education & gets the CCSS/CTE makeover:
4) The National Career Path Network:
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/01/08/tech-thursday-national-career-pathways-network/
4a) The American Apprenticeship Initiative is CCSS/CTE/CP (Common Core State Standards, Career Tech Education, Career Pathways aligned and supported in the WIOA (Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014)
https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/02/12/tech-thursday-aligned-apprentices/
5) Have you ‘met’ SHEEO (States Higher Education Executive Officers Organization)? If not, you need to see how cozy the organization is with the CCSSO (Council of Chief State School Officers):
6) Adult textbooks aligned with CCSS/CTE or CCR (college and career readiness):
6a) GED and more adult textbooks:
So, What’s New in the Adult CCSS Education Realm?
If you need to enlarge the above screen shot, simply click on it. Do you see? More ‘adult learners’! “new math”, and, ‘McGraw Hill Education‘. Good grief! But hold on, anti CCSS/CTE Warriors, there’s more!
From the news release pictured above, “For many people seeking to improve their career prospects, a high school diploma is the first stop on the pathway to prosperity. But an increasing number of adults and adolescents without a high school diploma are struggling to obtain one, according to the latest high school equivalency test data, which shows that fewer and fewer adults taking these assessments pass them. For these individuals, math is proving to be the biggest roadblock of all, with the math portion of most high school equivalency assessments having the lowest pass rate of all subjects.” Now, you may ask why I added emphasis on the ‘pathway to prosperity’. That, my warriors, is a pro CCSS/CTE buzz phrase (or educratic doublespeak) How do I know? Pearson Publishing and Harvard University teamed up to create the Pathways to Prosperity! See this article where you’ll also find ‘national job credentialing! https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/09/03/tech-thursday-just-say-no-to-nocc/
The news release also goes on to tell you of the lagging math scores by adults as based on the research by ‘Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC)‘ If you missed my article about the OECD and the ‘human capital’ ties to CCSS/CTE, https://www.commoncorediva.com/2015/09/08/ftf-human-capital-the-new-name-for-citizens/
After the news release shares the USA’s ranking, it goes on to share with you how McG H has a new ‘mathematics program aligned with Career and College Readiness Standards for adult education.’
To see the entire news release:
http://www.mheducation.com/news-media/press-releases/help-adult-learners-earn-high-school-equivalency-certificates-new-empower-for-math.html
What’s Inside the ‘New’ Math?
McG H Education, has a ‘great’ presentation of each of the new textbooks, both on-line and in print. Listen up for the ‘your country’, the ‘CCRS leveling system’ (College and Career Readiness Standards).
New and available this Winter:
To access the entire on-line preview of the above and even more CCSS ‘sneak peeks’,
http://www.brainshark.com/mcgraw-hillseg/vu?pi=zHfzetjXpz57VEz0&intk=810014462
To see more about all of this from the McG H Education website, be sure to click on the embedded link in the press release (see above) where you see the phrase ‘new EMPower’
You’ll probably also want to check out the TERC (Technical Education Research Center) and its part in this ‘new math’ for adults. A link to their website in at the bottom of the above news release. Briefly, TERC is a non-profit group. It’s devoted to not only post-secondary education and curriculum development, it’s into STEM as well (Science, Technology, Engineering, and, Math). Among the funding organizations are AIR (American Institutes of Research, The Gates Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the U.S. Dept. of Education, and a host of other groups, schools, and consortia. Find them all:
https://www.terc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=2392330
*Note, I will be further investigating TERC in a future article, as many of their projects in research and development are geared for reforming education. With as many CCSS Machine members as TERC is either working with or being supported by, we must know more!
Closing:
I hope you will share today’s post widely. I trust you will use the information at your local school board meetings or presentations to those in charge of higher education in your states. We simply MUST have more conversations of ALL the levels of CCSS/CTE infiltration!
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