{"id":22974,"date":"2014-06-09T16:21:59","date_gmt":"2014-06-09T20:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22974"},"modified":"2014-06-09T16:21:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-09T20:21:59","slug":"what-the-people-who-designed-it-say-about-common-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=22974","title":{"rendered":"What The People Who Designed It Say About Common Core"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Breitbart.com<\/a> posted a story about Common Core. It seems that despite the talk about the need for rigorous academic standards that Common Core supposedly will provide, Common Core is not really about academic standards.<\/p>\n

The article states:<\/p>\n

In an interview<\/a> with the Washington Post<\/a><\/em> that summarizes how Bill Gates<\/a> pulled off the very \u201cswift Common Core revolution,\u201d the Microsoft founder stated, \u201cThe country as a whole has a huge problem that low-income kids get less good education than suburban kids get\u2026 and that is a huge challenge.\u201d<\/h2>\n

Gates\u2019s statement underscores further the notion that the Common Core standards initiative is a social engineering project that places education standards ahead of parental and family influences as the major cause of poor student performance in low-income and minority communities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Regardless of the push by various Gates-funded organizations to boast the Common Core standards\u2019 \u201crigor,\u201d the real motivation to correct what is viewed as societal injustices was underscored even by U.S. Secretary of Education<\/a> Arne Duncan who said<\/a> last November that it was \u201cfascinating\u201d that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards<\/a> (CCSS) is coming from \u201cwhite suburban moms who \u2013 all of a sudden \u2013 their child isn\u2019t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn\u2019t quite as good as they thought they were.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyone who has worked in public education knows that two major reasons for poor student achievement are parental involvement and culture. If a student belongs to an ethnic group where academic achievement is frowned upon, that student is not going to achieve. If the parents of a student do not value education, the student will not value education. If the peer group of the student does not value education, the student will not value education. Common Core does not either take either one of those factors into consideration.<\/p>\n

The article further explains:<\/p>\n

Despite the lack of validity of the Common Core standards, the Post<\/em> reports<\/a> that after Gene Wilhoit, director of the Council of Chief State School Officers<\/a> (CCSSO) and a former Kentucky education commissioner, and Common Core \u201carchitect\u201d David Coleman met with Gates about funding the development of the standards, Gates\u2019s foundation gave over $5 million to the University of North Carolina-affiliated Hunt Institute, led by former Gov. Jim Hunt<\/a> (D). The Hunt Institute then coordinated more than a dozen organizations, including the Thomas B. Fordham Institute<\/a>, National Council of La Raza<\/a>, Achieve, Inc., the two national teachers’ unions, and the two groups that are the copyright owners of the Common Core standards \u2013 CCSSO and the National Governors Association<\/a> (NGA).<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talking points about the standards were then developed by GMMB, a communications firm owned by Jim Margolis, a top Democrat strategist and veteran of both of Obama\u2019s presidential campaigns.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Public relations firms, big corporations, and unions are not the answer to America<\/a>‘s education problems. One of the differences in education in the past fifty years is the change in parental attitudes. Back in the age of dinosaurs when I was in school, if you got in trouble (or got bad grades) in school, you were also in trouble at home. Somehow in the past fifty years the equation has changed in many families–if you are in trouble at school, it’s the teacher’s fault. Teachers are afraid not to send children on to the next grade due to pressure from parents and often, pressure from school administrators.<\/p>\n

The problem in our schools is not in the curriculum or standards–it is in requiring students to meet a standard.<\/p>\n

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