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  • Excellent 100-page summary of the case against Common Core

    05/08/2014 2:53:45 PM PDT · by BruceDeitrickPrice · 6 replies
    Amazon.com book review ^ | May 8, 2014 | Bruce Deitrick Price
    [Defeating Common Core is a great way to defeat Obama and indeed the whole Leftist agenda.] Brad McQueen, a school teacher in Arizona, was sufficiently well-behaved to be invited to work on the Common Core assessments in Chicago. That’s how he came to know the beast from the inside. Little by little, he heard parents complaining about the burden of Common Core, the irrational homework, the frustration of the kids, the pathetic fact that children were not learning more math but less math. He saw that the main opposition to Common Core was coming from ordinary parents, especially the mothers....
  • ‘The Bluest Eye’ under fire as part of Common Core reading list, content includes incest, rape

    10/18/2013 10:36:45 AM PDT · by Nachum · 23 replies
    The Global Dispatch ^ | 8/24/13 | Brandon Jones
    Common Core, the controversial set of education standards being instituted by many state governors and education leaders, is coming under fire for its selection of a book that’s on the suggested reading list for 11th graders. 'The Bluest Eye' ok for high school students? ‘The Bluest Eye’ ok for high school students? The book, a past selection of Oprah’s Book Club, has graphic sex scenes and descriptions that make many readers blush. The work in question comes from Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison who explains her motivation for the book. Morrison, says that she wanted the reader to feel as...