Open Letter to Parents of Public Schooled Children
This fall as your buy your school supplies, tennis shoes, and backpacks, make sure you do your homework on the shift that has taken place within the halls of public schools across this nation. Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are creating a dark future for education and parents must educate themselves on these new standards and their radical implications.
What you need to know about CCSS:
1) These standards claim to be “rigorous” and will prepare your child for “college and career”. But upon review you will find that these standards will prepare your child with empty skill sets and will teach them what to think, not how to think. They will also foster “teach to the test” practices!
2) These standards claim to be “state led”, but this is one of the largest myths of CCSS. Truth is CCSS were initiated by private interests in Washington, DC, without any representation from the states. Eventually the creators realized the need to present a façade of state involvement and therefore enlisted the National Governors
When Common Core News Becomes Propaganda
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the Pensylvania State Board of Education adopted the Common Core State Standards. Actually report isn't entirely accurate as you will see.
As expected, the state Board of Education on Thursday adopted a more rigorous curriculum known nationally as the Common Core Standards.The board also voted to require students to pass the Keystone Exams before they graduate from high school.The Common Core Standards in English, arts and mathematics will take effect next school year. More than 40 states have adopted or are considering some version of Common Core, which has generated controversy elsewhere but largely escaped opposition here.The class of 2017 will be required to pass three Keystone Exams: algebra I, biology and literature; the class of 2019 will be required to pass four: algebra I, biology, literature and composition; and