Cracks in Common Core
Heritage.org – Lindsey Burke
– 7/4/2013
Common Core is an effort to
establish national standards and tests to define what every child in public
school will learn. It has been heavily incentivized by the Obama Administration
and is an unprecedented federal overreach into local school policy. But recent
moves in several states across the country could mean that curriculum freedom
remains alive and well.
On Monday, Oklahoma
superintendent of education Janet Barresi announced that the Sooner State
would be pulling out of the Common Core testing consortia. Barresi told the Tulsa World that because of myriad
technical problems with the assessments and higher anticipated costs, “If we
move ahead with this, we are going to be asking the state to drink a milkshake
using a cocktail straw.”
Oklahoma’s withdrawal follows Alabama, which
also withdrew from the common assessments earlier this year. Both states
still plan to follow the Common Core standards but will be assessing how
students perform on those standards with tests they have chosen.
The Founders placed the
important job of educating America’s
children with states, localities, and, most critically, parents. The
Constitution does not contain the word education, even though its architects
believed in its supreme importance. “I look to the diffusion of light and
education as the resource to be relied on for ameliorating the condition,
promoting the virtue, and advancing the happiness of man,” wrote
Thomas Jefferson. The Founders would have likely seen the prospect of a
national curriculum as a monumental government overreach.
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