Black middle schooler speaks on Common Core (Video) (798 hits)
What is Common Core?
Common Core proponents offer upbeat descriptions of utopian educational goals along with detailed practical lists of what students should know and be able to do in grades K–12 in mathematics and English language arts. But those goals and standards are just two facets of the conglomeration of federal funding, preschool–workforce invasive student tracking, and one-size-fits-all computer-based learning that has become the Common Core.
We’ve taken a closer look at how the Common Core got started, who’s behind it, and what it will mean to homeschoolers:
Years of federal spending have proven that centralized education does not work. The only way to give students a better education is to return control to parents and local schools!
