{"id":1307,"date":"2013-08-18T19:03:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/?p=1307"},"modified":"2013-08-18T19:03:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T00:03:15","slug":"the-dumbing-down-of-america-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/2013\/08\/18\/the-dumbing-down-of-america-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dumbing Down of America Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is how we help our kids &#8216;compete in the global economy&#8217; as Rep. Lorrie Carey once parroted for an IB talking point?<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\n&#8220;But even under the new Common Core\u2026 even if they said 3 X 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their answer, really in words and in oral explanations, and they showed it in a picture but they just got the final number wrong, we\u2019re really more focusing on the how and why.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/shock-video-the-new-common-core-obama-math-standard-3-x-4-11_08182013\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is how we help our kids &#8216;compete in the global economy&#8217; as Rep. Lorrie Carey once parroted for an IB talking point? &#8220;But even under the new Common Core\u2026 even if they said 3 X 4 was 11, if they were able to explain their reasoning and explain how they came up with their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1308,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1307\/revisions\/1308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mvsd-ib.org\/ib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}