by Pat Droney at Law Enforcement Today
While the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers concern themselves with brainwashing students into deviate sexual ideology and critical race theory, a recent assessment facilitated by the Heritage Foundation which measured long-term trends of 13-year-olds reading and math achievement has revealed a troubling trend, showing a significant drop in scores over the past eight years, Breitbart News reports.
Common Core has been a disaster. https://t.co/nmWkNSOuhF
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) April 28, 2020
Heritage’s Center for Education Policy researchers Nick Storz and John Schoof uncovered the abject failure of the Common Core Standards implemented during the Obama administration. The researchers discovered that the eight-year decline was the first in the 50-year history of the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ 2020 Long-Term Trend Assessment.
“Despite record-high education spending, these declines are the latest evidence casting significant doubt on Common Core’s learning standards and approach to student improvement,” the researchers told the Daily Signal.
For example, over two-decades, test scores of nine-year-olds showed improvement, however current scores showed no change since the test was administered in 2012.
Meanwhile, reading scores for 13-year-olds fell by three points, while math scores for students in the same age group fell by five points.
High-performing students didn’t seem to suffer the same as their lower performing or struggling peers, who showed significant drops in scores across an eight-year period. This was in the 13-year-old age group.
“Students scoring in lower testing percentiles experienced the most distressing declines,” Storz and Schoof noted.
“The math score of the median student dropped by five points, the 25th percentile fell by eight points, and the 10th percentile fell by a shocking 12 points.”
In sum, the data shows that “13-year-old students scoring in the 10th percentile dropped more than the equivalent of a full grade year in math capabilities below where they were in 2012,” the researchers said. “Black students and students in the 25th percentile were close behind.”
Dr. Peggy Carr, Associate Commissioner, notes that the lowest performing students–those readers who struggle the most–have made no progress in reading since the first assessment almost 30 years ago. Learn more: https://t.co/EWajchXvIH#NAEPDay pic.twitter.com/9zanK5fPmv
— NAEP, The Nation’s Report Card (@NAEP_NCES) October 30, 2019
Even more disturbing is the performance of minority students, where scores of black students saw an eight point drop, while Hispanics dropped four, evidence of a widening achievement gap.
That follows up on a study released in April 2020 by the Pioneer Institute, a Boston-based public policy consortium which discovered a historic drop in national reading and math scores among U.S. students since the adoption of Obama’s Common Core Standards 10 years ago.
“Nearly a decade after states adopted Common Core, the empirical evidence makes it clear that these national standards have yielded underwhelming results for students,” said Pioneer Executive Director Jim Stergios in a statement at the time.
“The proponents of this expensive, legally questionable policy initiative has much to answer for.”
The April 2020 study, titled “The Common Core Debacle” was written by education policy researcher Theodor Rebarber and outlined how “shocking trends” in American student performance in the critical math and reading skills areas which have taken place since the creation of the U.S. Department of Education 40 years ago dictates a second look on the federal government’s involvement in education.
The decline in reading and math performance since Common Core was adopted has been especially pronounced among the country’s lowest performing students, a majority of whom come from lower-income families or where failing public schools are prevalent, primarily in Democrat-run cities. This has resulted in a widening gap in achievement, and has created further inequality.
Rebarber laid the blame for the downfall in achievement squarely where it belongs…Common Core, a policy which was touted by leftists when it was implemented under the Obama administration:…
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