Joy Pullmann at Heartland put up a note that made sense about the current Common Core wars.
Common Core is not the reason for everything that’s wrong in public school pedagogy.
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Category: Education
Common Core in the People's Republic of NY
Another howl of protest, this time from NY teachers about excess testing.
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Charter Schools in Jeapordy?
You mean that statists would want to shut down charter school programs?
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A Teacher Talks the Real Problem
Sure, I agree, Common Core is just the latest bad educational idea.
Bad language skills, math skills, inadequate science and social studies content.
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Common Core–Tool of the Commies
Public education is biting us back. Schoolteachers can’t be trusted with children, having been indoctrinated in John Dewey socialism and worse. They certainly can’t teach because they are too busy with political correctness and socialist/post modernist/relativist brainwashing.
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Important Junk Science in Economics and Public Policy
You might say, well JunkScience shouldn’t touch on political issues–and what would you call chemophobia, climate change, and policy decisions on climate, energy policy, and air pollution?
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Western Civ Must Survive–Support the National Association of Scholars
This essay about the battle to save Western Civ and meaning of Western Civilization Studies was compelling.
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Homeschoolers Under Fire
This is a startling tale about the anti home school attitude in Germany and a German family that was granted asylum.
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Camille Paglia and the Elitist Applecart
All you students of the modern culture and soft or hard science should have Camille on your radar.
She doesn’t pull punches and is erudite to an extreme degree in anthropological/cultural studies of modern society.
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More Education Babble from the Feds
Now the Sec of Education claims that the Feds aren’t trying to influence the Common Core development. They claim it is a state driven thing, but we know better, don’t we? The carrot is money, the states always sit up for money.
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Common Core Curriculum Criticisms
Larry Arnn PhD, president of Hillsdale College, spent some time as Director of Research for Martin Gilbert, the official biographer for Churchill, at Oxford. Arnn speaks below to the question of a good education and he doesn’t approve of the aims and the content of the Common Core program being implemented across the nation. He draws a parallel with trends in governmental bureaucracy and loss of liberty.
http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/current
1984 Education Programs Coming to Your Home Town
Common core is a fraudulent collectivist statist educational program for all the states, sponsored by elites and the state.
It threatens academic inquiry and excellence and assures mediocrity of content, conformity of thought.
If successful it will extinguish liberty and freedom, and promote censorship and tyranny of ideas.
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