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Are the new national academic standards rotten to the (Common) Core?

by Maureen Downey

Here is another compelling and passionate piece fromPelham City, Ga., school chief Jim Arnold. (You can search the blog for other Arnold essays.)
Arnold takes on the new Common Core Standards, in which former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue played a pivotal leadership role through the National Governor’s Association.

By Jim Arnold
I must state from the outset that I am innately suspicious of the underlying motives or educational benefits of any initiative – Common Core included — supported by the Georgia governor who instituted austerity cuts in 2003, led Georgia to be one of the only states to use teacher furloughs