Common Core: Statist to the core
Freedom Outpost – Karen Schroeder
– 7/19/2013
Long article - click link above.
“Common Core: conservative
to the core” is one of many articles Chester E. Finn, Jr., has penned
encouraging conservatives to embrace Common Core State Standards.
Unfortunately, Mr. Finn never discloses that his “conservative” Thomas B.
Fordham Institute has accepted nearly a million dollars from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation to develop supportive materials for Common Core
Standards. Mr. Finn’s conflict of interest renders his assessment of Common
Core self-serving and lacking credibility.
The Gates Foundation, David
Coleman from the College Board, the International Baccalaureate Organization,
the National Governors Association, the Council of Chief State School Officers,
and a myriad of others wrote Common Core Standards—NOT the states.
Teachers and taxpayers
should be outraged that any set of standards would require a retraining of
teachers to assure implementation. Why should a teacher need to have special
training to implement Common Core? The reason is that Common Core Standards do not
emphasize student acquisition of knowledge and development of skills. They
demand that students develop a belief system and attitudes needed to create a
population with a “world philosophy.”
Americans are being forced
to spend sixteen billion dollars on a plan shaped by the same policies of
Benjamin Bloom that have been failing our children since the 1960s. Dozens of
standards that are far more rigorous than Common Core Standards are free and available
on the internet. States have always had access to them. When one compares TIMSS
math standards for fourth graders to those of Common Core for the same grade
level, it becomes painfully obvious that CCSS are not the rigorous standards
promised.
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