Common Core Making
Kids Anxious, Say School Psychologists
by Dr. Susan Berry 21 Nov 2015
New York State school psychologists say the Common Core standards are associated
with increased student anxiety, according to a new report released Friday.
Some 76% of school psychologists in the state’s nearly 700
school districts say Common Core – and the standardized tests associated with
it – are associated with more anxiety than local tests, observes a report
titled “Anxious for Success: High Anxiety in New York Schools,” released
jointly by the New York State School Boards Association and the New York State
Association of School Psychologists.
The report indicates that since the implementation of the
Common Core standards and the grades 3-8 tests aligned with them, six in ten
school psychologists – or 61% – said the level of test anxiety has increased
among students. None of the school psychologists said the level of test anxiety
has decreased since Common Core.
In addition, the survey results showed that nearly 90% of
school psychologists who participated believed that teachers’ expectations
contributed at least somewhat to test anxiety, and 88% percent said that
parents’ expectations also contributed to students’ stress.
According to the survey, test anxiety is more common in
elementary school-age children, with reports of internalized emotional symptoms
– such as excessive worry and withdrawal – found to be twice as common among
students as externalized ones – irritability, frustration, and acting out. Thus
far, physical symptoms – such as nausea and headaches – were not found to be as
prevalent as stress and anxiety among students.
The report continues that about one-third of school
psychologists in the state have implemented stress and anxiety management
programs in classrooms in their schools.
“This report should make all education stakeholders – from
state policymakers to local teachers to parents – aware of the profound impact
that they can have, both positive and negative, on student test anxiety,”
Timothy Kremer, executive director of the School Boards Association, said
in a statement.
Support for the Common Core standards has continued to
decline since the reform has been implemented. In August, the annual Education
Next poll found that only 49%
of those surveyed were supportive of the standards, down from 53% in 2014, and
65% the year prior.
Common
Core standards
Jeb
Bush is a supporter of the Common
Core educational standards, and a member of the Alfalfa Club.
Note: Dianne Feinstein
is a member of the Alfalfa Club, a U.S. Senate senator, and married to Richard C. Blum.
Richard
C. Blum is married to Senator Dianne
Feinstein, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), and the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Diane
S. Ravitch was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
an assistant secretary for the U.S.
Department of Education, and is a Common
Core educational standards critic.
Race to the Top
is a grant program for the U.S.
Department of Education, and encourages the adoption of the Common Core educational standards.
Susan
E. Rice was a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
is the White House national security adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and Lois Dickson Fitt’s daughter.
Lois Dickson
Fitt is Susan E. Rice’s mother, was
a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a VP at
the College Board.
David
Coleman is the president of the College
Board, and was a co-founder of the Student
Achievement Partners.
Student
Achievement Partners helped develop the Common Core educational standards.
Achieve
Inc. helped develop the Common Core
educational standards.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for Achieve Inc., the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace (think tank).
Newton
N. Minow is an honorary trustee at the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F. Freidheim
Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Achieve Inc., the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank), and the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank).
Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie
Corporation of New York, and the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Jessica Tuchman Mathews was an honorary
trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a
2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982
(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) was a funder for the Nuclear
Threat Initiative (think tank).
David A. Hamburg
is an adviser for the Nuclear Threat
Initiative (think tank), and the president emeritus for the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
Carnegie
Corporation of New York was a funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank), the Brookings
Institution (think tank), the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), and Achieve Inc.
Achieve
Inc. helped develop the Common Core
educational standards.
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