COMMON CORE - UNELECTED BUREAUCRATS DICTATE LOCAL SCHOOLS

New EAGnews webpage devoted to chronicling debate surrounding Common Core national standards

http://eagnews.org/new-eagnews-webpage-devoted-to-chronicling-state-by-state-debate-surrounding-common-core-national-standards/

EAGNews.org – Ben Velderman – 6/18/2013

  

This is the weblink to the EAGNews dedicated to current information relating to Common Core legislation in ALL states:  http://eagnews.org/commoncore/

It’s been said that if Common Core takes root, it will gradually shift decision-making power away from local school board members and state officials and toward the anonymous and unelected individuals who will write the Common Core-related standardized tests and the corresponding learning materials.

Because teacher job evaluations will be linked to their students’ Common Core test scores, it’s reasonable to expect educators to tailor their lessons to the topics covered on the standardized tests.

That gives the private test-making companies – and the federal bureaucrats who will be working with them – a backdoor way of influencing what’s taught in America’s classrooms.

Will such revelations rally enough Americans to stop Common Core before it takes full effect in just 14 months?

All we know is that Common Core is the public policy equivalent of an arranged marriage, and that’s never been a popular custom in “the Land of the Free.”

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