(Hour 3b, c) Senior Fellow Sid Glassner saluted the “remarkable” Kathy Benuck. A great loss to Bedford and to Bedford Community Television.
Sid cited a Sunday News article by Ted Siefer congratulating the Manchester School District for finishing the Academic Standards. Glassner has a question, not congratulations, for the MSD.
“Why was Common Core used as a floor for the Manchester Academic Standards?
Glassner believes parents and taxpayers need to ask the same question.
“There is no evidence to support adopting Common Core standards.” He and Rich discussed the “Era of Blind Acceptance” by the NH State Board of Education. An era that will harm a generation of kids.
“We lost almost a decade to No Child Left Behind, now we’re jumping from one fire into another.”
“If parents really knew what was going on, they would be horrified.”
(Hour 3b) 07-03-2014 Hour 3b
Glassner and Rich are both on the same page about Thomas Frischknecht of the Founder’s Academy, and on smarter balanced assessment testing.
“It’s not just the test,” said Glassner, “its the concept of testing. Our children are the most tested on the planet. Smarter balanced testing is meaningless. These are group tests. With group results. They serve no purpose.”
But they will hit the taxpayers’ bottom line. The price tag on Common Core is already $375 Million. And that’s just the tip of the financial iceberg.
Glassner had ALOT to say about “Common Core Coercion Chief” Arne Duncan, Secretary of Education.
“He’s in over his head,” claimed Sid, who told us about Duncan’s sad legacy in Chicago. Is the legacy he’s currently building in Washington, DC much worse?
(Hour 3c) 07-03-2014 Hour 3c
