Posted on 04/23/2014 1:49:16 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
...The National Education Association (NEA), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), among other organizations were instrumental in bringing together teachers to provide specific, constructive feedback on the standards.
(Excerpt) Read more at commoncore.learnmoregofurther.org ...
"The federal government was NOT involved in the development of the standards."
The truth is in "Building the Machine"
See the trailer here: CommonCoreMovie.com
They also have ads running that tries to convince us of the idea that Common Core did not come directly from DC....They slyly say it is not a mandate from Washington....as if that is the point
To say that the federal government won’t influence any portion of any national educational standards or curricula when it has the Department of Education overseeing the whole ball of wax is about as unrealistic as saying that the feds “never will” get involved in the health care business. Sure, local districts and states can create and control their curricula, just as we citizens can keep our medical plans if we like them! That’s all federal fantasy, not based upon historical facts of the feds’ overreaching, influencing and controlling anything and everything that is national.
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