• • Working Draft, Fueled by the 100Kin10 Network • • • Back to Page 1 *Networks of association are interconnected thoughts, feelings, and memories that are active outside awareness and influence everything we do. • • Back to Page 1 Mean Rating % Preferring Our Message % Preferring Opposition Margin Opposition 67.2 - - - Outcompete 76.2 50 32 +18 Changing World 76.2 50 32 +18 Accountability 75.4 48 32 +16 Math Homework 71.9 44 38 +6 Mean %80-100 Margin The Common Core is just another big government program that takes education out of the hands of states and parents and puts it in Washington, leading to predictable results: too much emphasis on testing, too little emphasis on teaching, and too much time away from learning. 66.7 40 -- Testing ought to get at what you really understand about something and how well you can apply it, not how well you've learned to take the test. 81.9 60 +36 If politicians can't stand behind something as simple as setting high educational standards their own states just developed, then maybe it's time we develop higher standards for politicians. 81.5 63 +34 It's time to stop making teachers "teach to the test," and instead use tests to tell us whether students are learning to think critically and problem-solve, so that they'll have the knowledge and skills they need to live successful, productive, and satisfying lives. 80.4 60 +36 A high-school diploma should mean something: that every child who earns one now has a core foundation of knowledge, and skills that will allow them to compete with kids from anywhere in the world. 81.2 60 +34 American students should be able to compete with students from anywhere in the world, because when they graduate from high school, technical school, or college, they will be competing with them for jobs in a global economy. 80.6 59 +35 Back to Page 1 • • • • • • • • Back to Page 1 Back to Page 1