Posted on 01/24/2015 1:07:00 PM PST by Ray76
When the radicals start defending standards, thats when you have to become suspiciousof the standards.
That is the case with Obamas federalized education plan called Common Core.
Perhaps there is no clearer sign than when Mother Jones mocks alarms raised about Common Cores national tests and student data tracking that will eliminate local control, and effectively, private and home schooling. When Linda Darling-Hammond, close pal of Bill Ayers, is in charge of developing tests, beware!
As I noted in my Dissident Prof post, the defenders of Common Core need to look at the reality, look at the money trail, look at how many radical professors are developing Common-Core compliant books and offering their Common Core consulting services. A prime example is Marc Aronson, author of a scurrilous book for middle-school students on J. Edgar Hoover and communism in America. Next week, he is a featured panelist at a Publishers Weekly Discussion Series, Trade Books and the Common Core: Where Do They Meet?
He is one of the many radical Common Core entrepreneurs that I wrote about in my Accuracy in Media report, "Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama's Federal School Curriculum." Aronson is part of Stanford University's "Reading Like a Historian Project," supposedly intended to make students more excited about history, but in reality intended to make them radically skeptical of our nation's history of exceptionalism. Stanford University, of course, is the academic home of Linda Darling-Hammond, one degree removed from Bill Ayers, who was a keynote speaker at a 2009 meeting about Common Core. Education Secretary Arne Duncan was another speaker at that meeting.
Stanford seems to be producing a lot of material for Common Core (which is also promoted by the PBS Education site), like Reading Like a Historian published by Teachers College Press, also publisher of many of Ayers' so-called "education" books. The catalogue description includes a promotional blurb by Darling-Hammond.
To see what "Teaching Like a Historian" is supposed to look like watch this video from The Teaching Channel. Its sent out by the Department of Education.
See the rest of my post, Common Core: Leftist Historians Profit here.
And if you still believe that Common Core is a conservative initiative, read the Mother Jones article, The Tea Partys Next Bogeyman: Obamas Common Core Conspiracy.
And Jeb Bush likes it!
The more I study “Common Core” - how it was devised, who had devised it, how it is pushed to the States, and what its effects will be - I see it is simply Obamacare for Education.
If you use the plural of the word “standard” you don’t have one.
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