the article below has a timeline of education and evolution of common core.
Common Core: Jeb Forgets What It Is – Repaying Education Debt, The Proof
http://www.maggiesnotebook.com/2015/08/common-core-jeb-forgets-what-it-is-repaying-education-debt-the-proof/
My research shows the evolution toward Common Core by the Left, began in 1964, at least, and more likely, 1947. In the Time of Obama (2008), the movement lurched forward by branding the future of education as “Repaying Education Debt through Social Justice. Specifically, see in the timeline below, the text in green, beginning at 2008.
Yes but.
This particular incarnation is being ‘run’ out of Qatar.
Which would explain the emphasis on Islam. Prepping the little kiddos to be at the very least Islamophiles, if not outright converts.
A Nation At Risk - released during the Presidency of Ronald Reagan
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/NatAtRisk/risk.html
“...If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. As it stands, we have allowed this to happen to ourselves. We have even squandered the gains in student achievement made in the wake of the Sputnik challenge. Moreover, we have dismantled essential support systems which helped make those gains possible. We have, in effect, been committing an act of unthinking, unilateral educational disarmament...”
The Childrens’ Story by James Clavell (author of Shogun and Nobel House)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZzNVx4ZN9A