Shocker - Common Core not giving good outcomes

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Reading through the few actual studies on learning outcomes, a common refrain seems to be teachers feeling unprepared to teach due to substandard training. I'd suspect that would lead to some trouble down the line.

You seriously have to try to help your kid with math to figure out what the problem is.  I've known math and engineering majors who couldn't help their 3rd graders with their math homework.  They were completely lost.  If that doesn't tell you there's a problem, I don't know what does.

In addition to poor teacher training, it's completely unrealistic - not at all developmentally appropriate for the different ages/stages of kids they're teaching to.  In the years when you're supposed to have kids learn the memorizable stuff (multiplication and addition tables for instance, when kids' brains are in the "parroting" stage), they are teaching them the "why" of math - the kids aren't there yet, and can't fathom what'd going on.  During the "why" phase for kids, they have them parroting.  It's just not based on science, or developmental psychology, or anything.  It's a disaster.