{"id":22609,"date":"2014-04-23T15:29:42","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22609"},"modified":"2014-04-23T15:29:43","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T19:29:43","slug":"and-all-this-time-you-thought-common-core-was-about-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22609","title":{"rendered":"And All This Time You Thought Common Core Was About Education"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday the Daily Caller<\/a> reported that Bill Gates<\/a> will shut down his Gates Foundation<\/a> (and Carnegie Corporation<\/a>) financed nonprofit educational-software<\/a> company InBloom Inc. permanently.<\/p>\n

This was the company that was going to compile large amounts of information on students<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

The strategy driving inBloom had been to create a huge database connecting local school districts and state education<\/a> bureaucracies with behemoth education companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To accomplish this goal, the nonprofit had hoped to provide a smorgasbord of data about students. What homework are they doing? What tests are they assigned? What are their test scores? Their specific learning\"\"<\/a> disabilities? Their disciplinary records? Their skin colors? Their names? Their addresses?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Atlanta<\/a>-based company had originally signed up nine states for the database. It planned to charge school districts between $2 and $5 per student for the privilege of participating in the student data collection<\/a> scheme.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The intrusive data collection of student information was not the only surprise in Common Core<\/a>. (also note that the school systems would be paying for the privilege of having their students’ privacy violated)\u00a0 Upon investigating the curriculum which is aligned to Common Core, parents found lessons that were age inappropriate, lessons that were historically inaccurate and slanted, and literature for junior high reading that bordered on pornographic.<\/p>\n

A few states are already are already responding to parental concern about Common Core and are backing away from using the standards and curriculum. Hopefully all states will move in that direction and then move to set up standards that work for them.<\/p>\n

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