The increasingly vocal campaign to stop an Obama administration-backed set of national education standards known as “Common Core” from being forced on state governments and local schools got a boost when the Republican National Committee criticized the plan.
GOP Blasts Obama-backed National Education Standards
The New American
15 April 2013
The increasingly vocal campaign to stop an Obama administration-backed set of national education standards known as “Common Core” from being forced on state governments and local schools just got a major boost on Friday. Meeting in Los Angeles last week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) unanimously adopted a resolution blasting the “one size fits all” educational scheme as “an inappropriate overreach to standardize and control the education of our children so they will conform to a preconceived ‘normal.’”
Instead of the “Common Core State Standards” being pushed by the Obama administration using taxpayer-funded bribes, the RNC, echoing the 2012 Republican Party Platform, said it believed in providing “broad education choices” to parents and children at the state and local level. A free market-based approach to education is best, the resolution continues, adding that it would help students to achieve individual excellence.
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Ben Swann: The Truth Behind "Common Core"
Reality Check - Apr 03, 2013
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrpjiywhSQU
It is called 'Common Core' and the idea behind it is reasonable.
States working together to create national standards for education.
Standards that are 'designed to be robust and relevant to the real world'.
Sounds good, so why is there growing opposition in Ohio and around the country to Common Core?
Ben has the Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.
States working together to create national standards for education.
Standards that are 'designed to be robust and relevant to the real world'.
Sounds good, so why is there growing opposition in Ohio and around the country to Common Core?
Ben has the Reality Check you won't see anywhere else.
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Background on Common Core:
Opposition to Obama-backed National Education Scheme Grows
Obama Bribes States to Adopt National Education Curriculum
Obama's "Common Core of Standards": Final Step in Phony School Reform
Who's Behind the Common Core Curriculum?
Will Common Core Standards Solve the Reading Problem?
CFR Task Force Calls for Education Reform
Federalized Progressive Education Marches On
The Race to Centralize Education
Government Schools Are Bad for Your Kids
A Short History of Government Education
