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).<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
If you aren’t well informed on Common Core Standards and don’t understand the problem with them, below\u00a0are several links to helpful information. If you don’t think this affects home educators, stay tuned for Part 2<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n As quoted in the post just before this one:\u00a0\u201cThis notion that the children belong to the state, that their education must be provided for by the state \u2026 is inimical at every step to liberty.\u201d<\/em> ~ J. Gresham Machen (1881-1937)<\/strong><\/p>\n Please educate yourself by reading\/ watching the information at some of these links.<\/p>\n HSLDA<\/strong> –\u00a0Common Core State Standards Initiative: Too Close to a National Curriculum<\/a> Glenn Beck<\/strong> – at Truth in American Education<\/a> or at the Blaze \u00a0IS THE \u2018COMMON CORE\u2019 INITIATIVE DUMBING DOWN AMERICA\u2019S STUDENTS?<\/a><\/p>\n Heritage Foundation<\/strong> – \u00a0A National Education Standards Exit Strategy for States<\/a>\u00a0or States Must Reject National Education Standards While There is Still Time<\/a><\/p>\n Stop Common Core<\/strong> – \u00a0video series\u00a0What is Common Core?<\/a><\/p>\n Classical Conversations<\/strong> issued A Response to President Obama’s New State Standards for Education<\/a><\/p>\n My friend, Gina Glenn<\/strong>, has an entire Pinterest page devoted to Common Core articles links<\/a><\/p>\n Many other links (that I haven’t read all of) can be found in this blog article\u00a0– Common Core Primer<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 \u2026 Continue reading
\nMany more links at the bottom of this article.<\/p>\n