COMMON CORE: THE MOVIE

COMMON CORE: THE MOVIE

The movie is exceptionally well done.  The definition of Common Core emerges throughout the video.  

Building the Machine:  A Film about the Common Core

http://www.commoncoremovie.com/

(A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  That's what American education will become under Common Core.)

This article is a review about the movie:  Building the Machine

http://cathyduffyreviews.com/general-book-reviews/building-the-machine.htm

Cathy Duffy Reviews – March 2014

One of the most significant complaints they had was that the Common Core prepares students for community college and vocational training, but not for selective colleges or higher level math and science study. Instead, the standards aim for lower objectives that might be attainable for more students. Dr. Milgram points out how Common Core actually sets the stage for the dumbing down of college courses by requiring colleges and universities to allow all students who have graduated from high schools that have taught the Common Core to enroll in for-credit courses in math and English; they cannot require those students to take remedial courses. The inevitable result will be a lowering of the level of first-year college courses in math and English, with a subsequent scaling back of subsequent college levels courses.

While most homeschoolers are not yet feeling the brunt of the Common Core, the plan is that eventually curriculum and tests aligned to the Common Core will control education for most students, even if indirectly. It remains to be seen if there will be alternative educational paths for college and career that are independent of the Common Core.

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