What is Common Core? [Infographic]

I agree, when I was in school it was starting to get watered down more each year. And it was getting annoying to my parents when I started to come home with less homework each year. Bullying was also something that was handled better when I was younger, as I left High School, Teachers could do little about it, what happened?

Vivian walker, you write with much sense and wisdom, definitely more than the ‘authors’ of this boondoggle of an experiment!!! my granddaughter was ‘exposed’ to this ‘voluntary-NOT gov’t. mandated curriculum, and I can assure you, it has created many more problems than it has solved!!!the elimination of the ‘basics’ which you list are more than ‘out-dated’ learning tools no longer needed— they ARE the building blocks of education, which have thus far produced most of our successful citizens!!! when children first learn anything, don’t we repeat and memorize simple syllables(ma-ma, da-da, ba-ba for bottle) not ‘mama, mom, mother, female producer of offspring, etc. afterall, don’t they all describe our first experiences with ‘mom’?? what happens when these ‘new, progressive’ subjects, new math, etc. do not prove to be successful??? what happens if technology goes the way of these ‘old fashioned’ techniques???? and basic writing and spelling and composing a sensible well-organized letter or article, whatever,composed by the person who is writing it, should NOT have to dpend on machines or technology, regardless of how much some may want to ‘dumb-down’ our education system!!!do they care about the confusion and detriment to students who will be ill prepared by these new formulas! if all ‘academia’ has to do with its time, is to ‘force our most precious natural future resources’ with this indoctrination of confusion, then I pray they leave ‘the rest of us ‘perfectly content’ with the ‘oldie BUT goodie’ education that served us well before ‘they’ decided to improve upon it!!! as I say, “if it ain’t broke, DON’T fix it!! the ‘voluntary’ participation and implementation(and indoctrination,I say) of this curriculum guide ‘also’ enables the participating states to ‘qualify for federal grant monies’!!! is this even legal, with a ‘voluntary’ program???this doesn’t seem too voluntary to me!!! haven’t we been royally fooled enough by this rotten ‘bill of nogood’ debacle of a healthcare system, not to have seen CAUTION, when anything form this administration is presented!!! I wonder how much MORE taxpayer monies will be wasted on this program??? we need to ‘get with the program… and GET OUT OF THE PROGRAM!!! did the ‘powers that be’ inform the public that this program is ‘so popular’, that some states HAVE ALREADY OPTED OUT before full implementation!!! as in ALL things, MODERATION is strongly advised!!!