“So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.” PeopleThinkingWritingDoeKidsAmericaSocialResultsDealsCommonStudyTeachingLessonsMathCoreSocial StudiesTeaching KidsCommon Core Author:Megyn Kelly
“I never really get to go to school because I am always on tour or with my father. There is a tutor most of the time, but usually I am working so I never get to do the lessons. The worst thing about maths is all the kids are ahead of me because they go to school.” KidsSchoolFatherWorstLessonsMathWorst ThingsTutor Author:Willow Smith
“Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.” WorldLittlesStoriesKidsWinningTeamInvolvedProveBeatsYeahSeriesMathUpliftingBeachCaliforniaLeagueJapanCongratulationsMath And ScienceWorld SeriesLittle LeagueHuntington Beach Author:Jay Leno
“The schools I went to as a kid made me wary. It was clear to me that everything was a lie except math.” MadeKidsSchoolLyingClearMath Author:Suzan Shown Harjo
“When I went to Afghanistan in 2003, I walked into a war zone. Entire neighborhoods had been demolished. There were an overwhelming number of widows and orphans and people who had been physically and emotionally damaged; every 10-year-old kid on the street knew how to dismantle a Kalashnikov in under a minute. I would flip through math textbooks intended for third grade, fourth grade, and they would include word problems such as, "If you have 100 grenades and 20 mujahideen, how many grenades per mujahideen do you get?" War has infiltrated every facet of life.” PeopleIfsYearsWarProblemKidsNumbersStreetsMinutesThirdsMathGradesZoneNeighborhoodOverwhelmingAfghanistanFourthFlipWidowsOrphanTextbooksFacetsGrenadeThird GradeFourth GradeWar ZonesWidows And OrphansMujahideenKalashnikov Author:Khaled Hosseini
“We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before.” WorldKidsTodaySchoolReadingRecordsStudentsCollegeHighestHigh SchoolRateMathAll TimeScoreHigh School GraduationSchool Graduation Author:Barack Obama