Common Core State Standards hinder Black educational and cultural excellence
Posted: Thursday, July 4, 2013 9:00 am
Common Core State Standards created by the Council of State School Officers and the National Governors Association are inadequate for all American school children. Now adopted by 45 states, the District of Columbia and four territories, the standards are demeaning and particularly unacceptable for students of African descent.
While there is presently considerable dissent among states, parents, educators and even students with regard to the suitability of the standards for all students, those states that reverse their adoption of the standards risk their eligibility for Race to the Top funds. Yet, in spite of pressure from the White House for national acceptance of the standards, the state of New York Assembly and Senate, for example, have recently introduced a bill to “discontinue implementation of the Common Core State Standards.”
In the interest of students of color, it is important that Black and Latino legislators support the bill to end the government-required Common Core State Standards in New York.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson, Ph.D., wrote in his classic book “The Mis-education of the Negro” (1933) that education in America was intended purposefully to make people of African descent feel inferior and people of European