Students cannot multiply and divide. They can’t find their own state on a map. We have 50 million functional literates. Is somebody still able to pretend that these are acceptable results?
Ignore Common Core, the NEA, and Bill Gates. Here are some good ideas
Our Education Establishment, for 100 years, has denigrated facts, knowledge, maps, details, and the memorization of anything. It’s absurd. You can’t find your way around your own house unless you remember various rooms and hallways. All of life is like that.
