What's been overlooked is that teaching deep understanding to elementary students requires that teachers have that understanding themselves. Studies consistently show many don't.
Research also shows that, compared with other college students, future elementary teachers are especially prone to math anxiety — apprehension about doing math that’s so severe it interferes with actually doing it. That anxiety remains once they are in classrooms, and studies show that students learn less math from a math-anxious teacher.
Common core is a failure, it overly complicates math and it makes it impossible for parents to provide even basic help to their children with their homework. But that’s the way the education establishment wants it – only they alone have the right to teach your children.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Common core is a failure, it overly complicates math and it makes it impossible for parents to provide even basic help to their children with their homework. But that’s the way the education establishment wants it – only they alone have the right to teach your children.