Posted on 03/21/2016 7:23:48 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
It turns out that Common Core's creators might be demonstrating the same ethos Cuba Gooding's character demonstrated in the film Jerry Maguire when he said, "Show me the money."
"An undercover journalist for a nonprofit organization captured candid video of a national textbook company's sales executive making inflammatory remarks about federal Common Core standards and textbook companies' support of them," Andrea Dillon reported in School Reform News, which is published by the Heartland Institute. "Project Veritas, a nonprofit organization whose stated mission is to 'investigate and expose corruption, dishonesty, self-dealing, waste, fraud, and other misconduct,' interviewed now-former Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Accounts Manager Dianne Barrow about why educational publishing companies generally support the federal education standards."
"'You don’t think that the educational publishing companies are in it for the education, do you?' Barrow said in the recording. 'It's all about the money. What are you, crazy? It's all about the money.'"
"'I hate kids,' Barrow said later in the video. 'I'm in it to sell books. Don't even kid yourself for a heartbeat.'"
Project Veritas is the undercover journalism unit run by James O'Keefe. “James O'Keefe's undercover videos reveal what activists have been saying for years: Common Core is a set of standards written not for the benefit of students, but to enrich crony capitalists, such as mega-curriculum companies, Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, Pearson, and National Geographic Education,” Hamilton Institute fellow Mary Grabar wrote in a column which we posted last month.
Q: If you have $20 and the US Government has $1, how much money does the US Government have?
A: $21
^Common Core Economics
What’s wrong with the old textbooks? They worked for most of us.
And aren’t the Pearson textbooks feeding elementary students pro-Islam propaganda? I would suggest that every parent read through their young kids textbooks. Maybe it’s the teachers promoting Islam in the schools, but I have read the textbooks are full of propaganda, too.
New textbooks with Common Core. See previous comment.
They could do the common core part online and still use the tried and true textbooks.
Back a couple generations, every student brought each textbook home during the first weeks of school to place protective book-covers on each text and to place their signature into the book assigning personal responsibility to maintain the condition of each text intended for future use.
I've seen subjects taught without textbooks too. Budget cuts have some material taught through run-off sheets handed out - source unidentified. Though, I have yet to see any lessons on conjugations, sentence graphing, etc.
yeah it’s a wonder Bernie Sanders hasn’t embraced it.
and sometimes they are more up to date.
communist core
What do Common Core, “comprehensive” immigration reform, and IRS targeting of conservatives groups have in common? They are just a few examples of Muslim Brotherhood-connected policy initiatives that are affecting the lives of Americans every day. Under Obama, many new domestic policies, as well as many scandals, can be traced back to, in varying degrees, the Muslim Brotherhood.
To understand why America no longer feels like America – why it seems that the government has its favorites and while others are targeted and even persecuted – it is important to understand two strong influences on the Muslim Brotherhood.
The first is historical: the Nazi Party of Hitler’s Germany. The second is more contemporary: the strategy developed by Al Qaeda’s strategic mastermind, Abu Musab al-Suri.
In my son’s school in California, they had two sets of books. One for school and one for home. So the kids didn’t have to lug books home every night. I know the students would notice if the books were different. That being said, this was in the 90’s, early 2000’s. Who will stop the propagandizing in our public schools??? Certainly not the Dems. My son is out of school, but parents with kids in public schools need to be vigilant. I have heard the history textbooks are being rewritten to glorify people who didn’t actually have the achievements with which they are credited. Scary time in education in the USA.
So, the parents need to go online to see what is being force fed to the kids.
>What’s wrong with the old textbooks?
You mean, the pre-Common Core propaganda?
Wouldn’t personally touch anything less than 100yrs. old.
Even if the ones from pre-2k told me the Status of Liberty were copper, I’d still verify the same. /s
Common Core is the set of standards to which we teach. Everything taught is done so because CC requires it. Therefore, all of the textbooks are aligned to CC. There is no separating the text from CC. The textbook is CC, and CC is the textbook.
College Board is also now aligned to CC.
Our English textbooks are online. The students log in and have access to the text, assignments, TurnItIn™, additional resources, etc. One of the additional resources is an interactive session called Level Up Tutorial. There are various tutorials (source credibility, writing for research, etc.) and upon completion, students can take a quiz to demonstrate mastery. On one such quiz I noticed a question about the second amendment. The correct answer was something about the Bill of Rights being evaluated every now and then and updated/modernized to align with the times.
Yes. APUSH is terrible now, from what I’ve heard.
Wow. I know that boatloads of school districts signed up for Common Core to get the extra Fed (taxpayer) dollars. Sre the online services private? This is appalling. But I am thinking that students are now believing the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are ‘fluid’ documents to be change on thw whims of the times. How very sad. The Libs have been propagandizing kids for decades and now their hard work is coming to fruition. I hope our Constitutional Republic survives.
It’s not up to the district, it’s up to the state. My state, Ohio, has yet to dump CC. The private school my children attend never adopted CC, but private schools have that option.
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