If you haven’t heard of Common Core Standards, you probably haven’t been around education or the internet lately. Common Core Standards are just the steady progress of national governmental control of education, perpetual dumbing down, and creating cookie cutter cogs in a wheel. Our government seems to think that throwing lots more money at education, making it less independent and one-size-fits-all, and putting it in the jurisdiction of a national committee will solve the dismal decline of literacy in America (as if socialism has ever worked).
Even though CCS came to be in 2010, as with most current government programs full details still are not known. 45 states have chosen to align with standards that aren’t even fully set forth yet. (Remind you of other legislation? “Just pass it. You can read it and we can make it up later.”) States have opted in to get federal money (your and my tax money.) We are glad that our state is one of the handful that has not opted in.
If you aren’t well informed on Common Core Standards and don’t understand the problem with them, below are several links to helpful information. If you don’t think this affects home educators, stay tuned for Part 2.
As quoted in the post just before this one: “This notion that the children belong to the state, that their education must be provided for by the state … is inimical at every step to liberty.” ~ J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)
Please educate yourself by reading/ watching the information at some of these links.
HSLDA – Common Core State Standards Initiative: Too Close to a National Curriculum
Many more links at the bottom of this article.
Glenn Beck – at Truth in American Education or at the Blaze IS THE ‘COMMON CORE’ INITIATIVE DUMBING DOWN AMERICA’S STUDENTS?
Heritage Foundation – A National Education Standards Exit Strategy for States or States Must Reject National Education Standards While There is Still Time
Stop Common Core – video series What is Common Core?
Classical Conversations issued A Response to President Obama’s New State Standards for Education
My friend, Gina Glenn, has an entire Pinterest page devoted to Common Core articles links
Many other links (that I haven’t read all of) can be found in this blog article – Common Core Primer.
