It looks like traditionally Christian educational missions have new competition. Maybe we should WANT said competition to use Common Core if it is so hideous, that way they fail? It sounds more like a way to make the Islamic school initiative look more attractive.
It looks like traditionally Christian educational missions have new competition. Maybe we should WANT said competition to use Common Core if it is so hideous, that way they fail? It sounds more like a way to make the Islamic school initiative look more attractive.
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A truly Christian education mission would include Christian principles, but also it would celebrate individualism and patriotism, not collectivism.
Perhaps it would be better to explain this educational theory as a push for global world education. Students will be citizens of the world.
They would also like one world religion - Christianity and Islam to combine to be Chrislam (which is what Rick Warren teaches).
Common core will succeed as long as they benchmark the tests according to the inferior curriculum. In other words, if you teach someone to make pancakes to burn them and the test shows that if you burn them you are successful, what do you have?
Everyone will make burned pancakes! That isn’t success really, but they have only met the requirements that were asked of them.
The Islamic influence will come through the technology that is used (ipads to skype with Arab students) along with teaching the pillars of Islam.