Posted on 04/11/2013 10:05:43 AM PDT by opentalk
Thanks to grass-roots activism, limited-government think tanks, whistle-blowing educators and bloggers, vigilant local and state legislators, and tireless parents committed to protecting their children, the truth about federalized Common Core standards is spreading.
… Some stalwart conservatives inside the RNC get it. They’re bucking the mooooooderate Republican line on Common Core and have put forth a resolution being considered this afternoon at the RNC spring meeting. I heard from one of the co-sponsors of the resolution today, who believes it will pass. I’ll update with developments.
Here’s the full text of the resolution, via Shane Vander Hart at Truth in American Education.
The takeaway: Common Core is not “state-led,” never piloted, undermines choice, threatens student/family privacy, and is ”an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children so they will conform…”
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
RESOLUTION CONCERNING COMMON CORE EDUCATION STANDARDS
WHEREAS, the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a set of academic standards, promoted and supported by two private membership organizations, the National Governor’s Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) as a method for conforming American students to uniform (“one size fits all”) achievement goals to make them more competitive in a global marketplace, (1.) and
WHEREAS, the NGA and the CCSSO, received tens of millions of dollars from private third parties to advocate for and develop the CCSS strategy, subsequently created the CCSS through a process that was not subject to any freedom of information acts or other sunshine laws, and never piloted the CCSS, and
WHEREAS, even though Federal Law prohibits the federalizing of curriculum (2.), the Obama Administration accepted the CCSS plan and used 2009 Stimulus Bill money to reward the states that were most committed to the president’s CCSS agenda;....
While many Americans worry about government drones in the sky spying on our private lives, Washington meddlers are already on the ground and in our schools gathering intimate data on children and families.
Say goodbye to your children’s privacy. Say hello to an unprecedented nationwide student-tracking system, whose data will apparently be sold by government officials to the highest bidders. It’s yet another encroachment of centralized education bureaucrats on local control and parental rights under the banner of “Common Core.”...
They can ‘resolve’ all they want. That’s not going to stop it.
.. Working collaboratively with the Obama administration, the Gates Foundation subsidized the creation of a national curriculum for English and mathematics that has now been adopted by 46 states, and the District of Columbia
—despite the fact that the General Education Provisions Act, the Department of Education Organization Act, and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act all protect states against such an intrusion by the United States Department of Education.
“Commie Core” - designed to produce maximum ignorance of the founding principles of this country and lock-step stooges for the progressive agenda.
Bfl
… “Fact-based” books on climate change are also replacing classic works of literature because they are viewed as offering students an opportunity to learn “science.”
Common core does have ONE good point about it. There is a problem with states having different levels of what a student should know by what ever grade they are finishing. Assume a parent moves from Missouri to Florida, they have a kid in 10th grade. The states should have some sort of similar benchmark to determine that all 10 graders know this in these subjects. I think that the states should all get together and look at the standards and then agree on one. Keep the fed out of it.
Not a good idea at all.
The problem you describe has never been a big problem.
The ultimate ideal would be no "public" in education. Anything any government touches, it ultimately destroys.
If the States standardized, then without a doubt the evil left would somehow take over the curriculum and continue the progressive indoctrination. As it is, evil governments control 90% of K-12.
The marketplace would provide a superior product, if the parasites in government would get out of the way.
bttt
BUMP!
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