Common Core Seizes Control of Future Internet Education

American Thinker ^ | November 1, 2014 | Jack Curtis

[Albion Wilde]

[T]he current "Common Core" mandate, by which the federal government has enlisted the states to federalize the U.S. school curriculum, cut[s] off traditional local control. Once you control what is taught, you needn’t care where, by whom, or how that is done, you have eliminated all competitors...

Common Core represents a fair start toward total federal control of U.S. education...

[T]he Progressives so enamored of "diversity" are... dead set against any diversity in educating citizens... [I]f one recalls the works of John Dewey, the patron saint of the progressive education movement, the avowed goal is... to turn out useful and amenable citizens, and expressly not to educate critical thinkers who tend to be troublesome. Regardless, Common Core is here; even a number of Republican governors have adopted it...

[SuperLuminal]

Permanently eliminate government-school boards, teachers unions and members, and both state and federal E.D.'s.

Then strictly adhere to the three S's...