States Fix Common Core Problem by Changing its Name
Common Core is a toxic education program no matter what it’s called but rather than deal with the real problem, some states are just re-branding it.
Perry Chiaramonte of FOX News reports.
Name game: Amid opposition, states change title of Common Core
It might take more than a name change to quell parental anger at Common Core, the controversial national education standards adopted by all but four states.
With angry parents protesting the standards, and curriculum they say is tailored to it by writers of textbooks and lesson plans, several states have decided the solution is all in the name. Common Core is now referred to as “The Iowa Core” in the Hawkeye State. Florida calls it the tongue-twisting “Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.” Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently signed an executive order to erase the name “Common Core” for their new math and reading standards and Louisiana lawmakers are mulling a name change as well.
But critics say what states really need to do is scrap the Common Core Standards Initiative altogether.
“Even under a different name, the Common Core Standards are still mediocre, at best, and continue to put American students at a significant disadvantage to their international peers,” Glyn Wright, executive director of the Eagle Forum, told FoxNews.com.
A total of 46 states and Washington, DC have adopted all or part of the Common Core standard, which in most cases officially goes into effect at the start of the next academic year. The standards are designed to ensure that students from all over the nation graduate with a baseline of math and language skills. But critics say the program, proposed by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers in 2009, takes away local control of education. And they say lessons and textbooks sold as being “aligned with Common Core” are rife with left-wing social and political messages.
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Lipstick on a pig!
More effort is going into selling that turkey than went into creating it in the first place. This is all to create 2 classes, the elites and the serfs. The serfs will get a gov approved national curriculum while the elites will get their private schools. No elite will ever have to worry about some smart kid from the serf class bumping their idiot child out of a 6 figure job. Education should be about the pursuit of excellence and not about using pathetic methods to dumb down the population.