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I have no idea what is working and what is not (I did not even know if the standards were fully in place as of last year). Just seems like trying to make himself look more conservative to make his leap into the bid.
Will say something about giving authority back to the states despite common core being a creation of the states and so on. The standard crap.
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Exactly – this is just bs “me too”-ism so he can go on record bashing Common Core somehow without actually having to give any specifics. Really? He’s going to send NJ back to the drawing board on education standards when Common Core is, well, what states came up with when they decided to go back to the drawing board on education standards a decade ago? That’s why Jindal, Bush, and Christie himself used to champion it – it was a state-based, not a federal, initiative. Also, what people hate most about CC is not the curriculum per se, but all the testing that goes along with it – testing also initially supported by the usual suspects because it would allow districts to “hold teachers accountable”, i.e. attack traditional teacher tenure and seniority rights. I seriously doubt that’s the part Christie wants to ditch.
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This will also create more uncertainty for the teachers, and more work to try and implement something else (whatever that is) before they have a chance to get used to the Common Core standards. They’re so quick to argue that government and schools should be run like a business, right? And uncertainty is bad for business. So now he wants to switch things up for these already hard-working (some would argue over-worked) teachers again? I hope his reform comes with a nice pay raise for the teachers, as well as a proposal to increase the number of teachers to reduce class size.
Sorry I missed it live, but I’d pay money to see Christie turn on a dime.
Maybe in 2018 he can get a job with Big Apple.
Yep just telling the majority of republican primary voters what he thinks they want to hear. If he wins he’ll change it to what he thinks the majority of general voters want to hear. Typical republican strategy.
Republicans on education policy amount to men who left a good dump in the morning and think their opinion counts higher than the plumber.
Here’s what’s simply not working: Chris Christie.
oops. flounder flop.
I think there is a valid argument to be made about kids getting tested to much in high stakes situations. I am all for them getting tested as the normal part of school, they suck but it is how you tell what everybody knows. A few useful tests are worth more than a ton of somewhat useful tests.
I imagine holding teachers accountable is high on the list for any conservative. Ignoring pretty much everything else that goes into education.