Paul Horton: Of Common Core, Conspiracies and Coups d'Etat
Guest post by Paul Horton.
To those defending the Obama administration's Race To the Top and Common Core Curriculum initiatives, opponents tend to be placed in one very tidy box: "conspiracy theorists."
Long a critic of overzealous federal intervention in education, Chester Finn, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute that promotes educational excellence and supports the president's education agenda, charged opponents of these initiatives as conspiracy theorists and flippantly suggested that the United Nations might be behind the Common Core as a part of its efforts, apparently, to create a one world government .
As if taking his cue from Finn, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has recently made similar accusations in aDepartment of Education Press release: "The idea that the Common Core Standards are nationally imposed is
To those defending the Obama administration's Race To the Top and Common Core Curriculum initiatives, opponents tend to be placed in one very tidy box: "conspiracy theorists."
Long a critic of overzealous federal intervention in education, Chester Finn, President of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute that promotes educational excellence and supports the president's education agenda, charged opponents of these initiatives as conspiracy theorists and flippantly suggested that the United Nations might be behind the Common Core as a part of its efforts, apparently, to create a one world government .
As if taking his cue from Finn, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, has recently made similar accusations in aDepartment of Education Press release: "The idea that the Common Core Standards are nationally imposed is