Boo hoo to the failing scores. This country needs a wake up call. We have been failing our kids for years. There might be problems with Common Core but kids not passing are not the problem.
I used to sit with my calculus students after the AP exam and help the foreign born ones with English assignments. All had passed the regents. All had passed out of ESL classes. None were able to write coherent paragraphs. Reading their work was painful. All had to take ESL classes in college and couldn't understand why since they had done so well in high school.
Common core might be awful, but passing students who know nothing is probably worse. There has got to be a better way.
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