How do you do this, I've said the complete opposite, that it has everything to do with the school and it's methodology. I never claimed my son was not. He excelled in his school with an above 95%had been above average in both cases state and yet his performance on national was not as high, but you must be intentionally obtuse.

your quote:"The problem with that is if you had hard tests or hard standards you made your schools look bad. So there was a real, kind of perverse incentive baked into NCLB," Hess says. The desire to correct that mistake, Hess says, led to the creation of what became the Common Core. ~~~ So the answer reduce the standards so all States had easier qualifiers.....end quote

Where is this "my" school, this was a public school I was referring to at a later time.

I never stated the government wasn't involved, I was pointing out how through common core it was striving to find resolve, and still working on it.
Go back and read what I wrote, you've never comprehended my post, no reason to discuss it with you further. You twist everything to suit yourself. Common core was created to raise the standard.

When one considers a position in any department head, included in their resume is the character and staure of the person, buying ones position shows lack of integrity...period.

I don't need to go back and read your posts, they speak for themself.. A couple comments to consider..

"It has nothing to do with the method of teaching, that you should take up with his teacher." Is this your post, Morgan??

This comment of mine is taken out of context since you left out what I was commenting to. I was referring to what common core is, which is a standard, and not to the quality of teaching and learning ability. If my comment is read alone as you put it here it can be very easily misconstrued...once again with you.

"This may be true, but not the fault of the Federal government, if your looking to fix the problem with them, the problem will never be fixed. "
Also your post??
Yes correct, again... referring to common core, which is simply a bar to reach, it is the individual school that chooses how to meet that endeavor, and that is through the schools and not the government.

So you have said, it isn't goverment..
You have said it isn't the school or method of teaching..And yes, you have said it was the methodology .. which is confusing at the very least....I comprehend just fine the problem is your opinion vasilates easily causing some misunderstanding or confusion...

No I am not oscillating, this is you getting confused with the posts, on one hand we are discussing common core and on the other we're talking about the lack of education that is being achieved...or not. Two very different topics. One has to to with the method of how children are being taught, the other is to simply reach that desired goal in order to receive funding from the Federal government. A School can choose to opt out of Federal funding and keep it within the state alone. [/u]

Not to worry, I do the same thing, not being clear at times..I just want clarity of position... If you view reading your vasiliating comments as twist, then that's your opinion...I can live with that..

I am not vacillating at all, again reread each post and you will see the two different topics.

As it relates DeVos, it is your opinion she bought her way to the position she is now while giving zero credit for her years fighting the cause for better education developing and supporting charters over public schools..vouchers for all enabling the poor to also gain admission etc..

And finally, do you know how many politicians are bought and paid for with every special interest group there is just so their agendas are furthered??? While I agree with you that it is a character Issue, DeVos has given away millions for school enhancement...

Here's another cut and paste in recognition of all she had done to fight the cause for better educstion..
It being your position she bought her title I'd say spending 20 yrs fighting and spending millions of her own money isn't buying but giving ...

Education activism
Christian motivation
DeVos in 2001 listed education activism and reform efforts as a means to "advance God’s Kingdom".[5][6] In an interview that year, she also said that "changing the way we approach ... the system of education in the country ... really may have greater Kingdom gain in the long run".[5]

School choice
DeVos believes education in the United States should be opened up to for-profit charter schools, and she has stated that education is "a closed system, a closed industry, a closed market. It's a monopoly, a dead end."[113] DeVos believes that opening up the education market will offer parents increased choice, a view that critics call a drive to privatize the American public education system.[113]

School vouchers
DeVos is known as a "a fierce proponent of school vouchers" that would allow students to attend private schools with public funding.[114] According to The New York Times, it "is hard to find anyone more passionate about the idea of steering public dollars away from traditional public schools than Betsy DeVos".[61]

DeVos served as chairwoman of the board of Alliance for School Choice.[115] Until November 2016,[116] she headed the All Children Matter PAC which she and her husband founded in 2003 to promote school vouchers, tax credits to businesses that give private school scholarships, and candidates who support these causes.[117] Over the years, DeVos and her husband have provided millions in funding for the organization. In 2008, All Children Matter was fined $5.2 million in Ohio for illegally laundering money into political campaign funds.[118][119] DeVos was not named in the case.[120] The fine remained unpaid as of 2017, prompting calls by Democratic Party lawmakers for DeVos to settle the debt.[121][122]

Her other activities on behalf of public-school reform have included membership on the boards of directors of the Advocates for School Choice, the American Education Reform Council, and the Education Freedom Fund.[123] She has chaired the boards of Choices for Children, and Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP).[124]

DeVos is Chair of the American Federation for Children (AFC). Affiliated with the Alliance for School Choice, the AFC describes itself as "a leading national advocacy organization promoting school choice, with a specific focus on advocating for school vouchers and scholarship tax credit programs".[125]

During the 1990s, she served on the boards of Children First America and the American Education Reform Council, which sought to expand school choice through vouchers and tax credits. She and her husband worked for the successful passage of Michigan's first charter-school bill in 1993,[60] and for the unsuccessful effort in 2000 to amend Michigan's constitution to allow tax-credit scholarships or vouchers. In response to that defeat, DeVos started a PAC, the Great Lakes Education Project, which championed charter schools. DeVos's husband and John Walton then founded All Children Matter, a political organization, which she chaired.[126]

Detroit charter school system
DeVos has been an advocate for the Detroit charter school system. Douglas N. Harris, professor of Economics at Tulane University, wrote in a 2016 New York Times op-ed that DeVos was partly responsible for "what even charter advocates acknowledge is the biggest school reform disaster in the country". In the National Assessment of Educational Progress, Detroit had the lowest reading and mathematics scores "by far" over any city participating in the evaluation. She designed a system with no oversight, said Harris, and where schools that do poorly can continue to enroll students.[127]

Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review said that "some 47 percent of charter schools in Detroit significantly outperform[ed] traditional public schools in reading".[128] Defending DeVos's record in Michigan, Jay P. Greene, professor of Education Policy at the University of Arkansas argued Harris's New York Times article misled readers on the evidence and "falsely claimed that Detroit has failed to close failing charter schools", noting that Detroit has closed more charters than Louisiana, a state Harris cites as a model for charter school legislation.[129]

In a written response to a question about charter school performance posed during DeVos's confirmation hearing by Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), asking "why do you think their performance is so poor?", DeVos defended the charter school system using graduation rates that were significantly higher than those used for state and federal accountability purposes. DeVos provided examples of several charter schools that she said had 4-year graduation exceeding 90%. These examples were contested by Columbia University professor Aaron Pallas and Education Week reporter Ben Herold on the basis that the actual graduation rates were roughly only half as large as DeVos had stated.[130][131]

Grading system
DeVos and Joel Klein said in a May 2013 op-ed that residents of Maine "are now given information on school performance using easy-to-understand report cards with the same A, B, C, D and F designations used in student grades". This system, they argued, "truly motivates parents and the community to get involved by simply taking information that education officials have had for years and presenting it in a way that is more easily understood."[132]

Betsy and Dick DeVos Scholars for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Scholarship
The DeVoses have also established an annual scholarship, called the Betsy and Dick DeVos Scholars for Free Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Scholarship, which is awarded to students earning a BBA or combined BBA/MBA at Northwood University.[133]

Foundation for Excellence in Education
DeVos is a member of the board of the Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd),[134] a think tank founded by Jeb Bush whose stated goal is to "build an American education system that equips every child to achieve his or her God-given potential".[135]

And in closing let's remember all of this may be moot shortly and won't mean a thing... Not that it does now anyway...Government is going to do what they are going to do regardless of how we feel about it...Unfortunately..But we have to keep trying to make it better... And we never give up in that endeavor....