Stepped-up standards??
I doubt that very much
Good!
“But many parents see the initiative as a bid by the federal government to take over the education system.”
They’ve already taken it over. Common Core is just the latest dumba$$ initiative to suck up more taxpayer money in the pursuit of indoctrinated children who will be less likely to resist the coming socialism.
One needs only to review the new Common Core math curriculum to see that it’s terribly flawed, and will not actually develop math skills.
Math tables are still valuable in teaching the arithmetic fundamentals on which all the subsequent math skills are based.
http://www.amazon.com/Dumbing-Down-Curriculum-Compulsory-Anniversary/dp/0865714487
And as usual, the GOPe is on the wrong side of it.
I gratumated frum on uf da erli comun corpse skuls and gots a grate job rite awey. Als I hadda du was lurn a frekuentli usd fras “U want fryes wid dat?”
I would wager that no matter what the issue, if the 2012 elections were held today the result would be bascially the same.
Also on the Frances Swaggart show, one of the panelist said that a highly respected educator (can’t remember name) took a look at the dropped? Indiana standards that made headlines and said that they are more of the same but just guised in a different name.
HAHAHAHAHHA. Parents think their kids belong to themselves. HAHAHAHAHA
Go look at this. Eight pictorial examples show how evil and corrupting Core Common is:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3137724/posts?page=1
The Government Education Industrial Complex.