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- Why Did Hundreds Of Common Core Implementers Meet In Dubai?
Common Core in Dubai ?! A concerned Williamson County [Tenn.] parent stumbled upon this, “On October 24 and 25, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region will gather in Dubai, to learn about...
- Nh Teacher Says He Helped Write Common Core Standards To End “white Privilege”
From the Examiner: Last night at St. Anslem’s College in Manchester, opponents and proponents of Common Core got together to debate for the first time. It was a panel made up of 6 people, 3 proponents of Common Core and 3 opponents of it. The...
- Chinese-american Speech Gives Eloquent Speech Against Common Core: It's Leading Us Toward The American Equivalent Of The Chinese Exams --- Chinese Culture Is Technically Proficient, But Creatively Bankrupt
EXACTLY! The DailyCaller reports the following:Another high school student at Farragut High School in Knox County, Tenn. is receiving widespread attention for an eloquent speech he made against Common Core at a school board meeting.This...
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Welcome to the Untied States of America, where a parent can be physically ejected from a meeting (and possibly arrested) merely for wanting to question the school board about Common Core and where most, although not all, of the rest of the parents sit...
- The De-westernization Of Education
From "Common Core: Phasing Western Culture Out of Education": This week, left-wing outlets, like NPR’s quiz show, Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and the Huffington Post, as well as the British Telegraph, expressed surprise and concern that the new...
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"the children belong to all of us”
The Center for American Progress from a panel discussing Common Core standards for education.
While one may have any opinion about Common Core the blase insouciance about the idea that someone’s children ‘belong to all of us’ is rather revelatory of a state of mind, and what is accepted, and settled social science in the mind of CAP and most likely across the spectrum of Sorosian efforts (CAP is just one, albeit a key one).
The idea that the children belong to a collective ‘us’ was one of the more disgusting aspects of the USSR, and is a KEY component of ANY unified, totalitarian system.
While that is not the case here in the USA, the thinking of the left,the state of mind of these people is past alarming.
John Podesta, newly minted adviser to Obama, left the Clinton admin to become the head of CAP, where was until his recent appt.
The Common Core websitedescribes the creation and mission of the standards as follows:“The nation’s governors and education commissioners, through their representative organizations the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) led the development of the Common Core State Standards and continue to lead the initiative.”“Teachers, parents, school administrators and experts from across the country together with state leaders provided input into the development of the standards,” reads the website.But critics such as Lindsey Burke, a Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation who has studied the standards, said the initiative is about federal funding and centralizing education rules.“Common Core was developed by two national organizations, it’s adoption incentivized with billions in federal funding and waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind, and the national tests funded with federal grants,”Burke said.“These are not the hallmarks of a ‘state-led’ process,” she said. “Moreover, these are not high standards.”“They are, to reference the work of Stanford Professor of Mathematics Emeritus James Milgram, standards that prepare students for ‘non-selective community colleges,’” Burke said. “The English Language Arts standards de-emphasize the reading of fiction and classic literature in favor of informational texts.”“But most concerning, Common Core removes the ability of parents and teachers to direct academic content and will have a homogenizing effect on the educational choices available to families,” Burke said.
- Why Did Hundreds Of Common Core Implementers Meet In Dubai?
Common Core in Dubai ?! A concerned Williamson County [Tenn.] parent stumbled upon this, “On October 24 and 25, hundreds of schools, leadership teams, and teachers from across the region will gather in Dubai, to learn about...
- Nh Teacher Says He Helped Write Common Core Standards To End “white Privilege”
From the Examiner: Last night at St. Anslem’s College in Manchester, opponents and proponents of Common Core got together to debate for the first time. It was a panel made up of 6 people, 3 proponents of Common Core and 3 opponents of it. The...
- Chinese-american Speech Gives Eloquent Speech Against Common Core: It's Leading Us Toward The American Equivalent Of The Chinese Exams --- Chinese Culture Is Technically Proficient, But Creatively Bankrupt
EXACTLY! The DailyCaller reports the following:Another high school student at Farragut High School in Knox County, Tenn. is receiving widespread attention for an eloquent speech he made against Common Core at a school board meeting.This...
-
Welcome to the Untied States of America, where a parent can be physically ejected from a meeting (and possibly arrested) merely for wanting to question the school board about Common Core and where most, although not all, of the rest of the parents sit...
- The De-westernization Of Education
From "Common Core: Phasing Western Culture Out of Education": This week, left-wing outlets, like NPR’s quiz show, Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me! and the Huffington Post, as well as the British Telegraph, expressed surprise and concern that the new...