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Wednesday, July 29, 2015

The Sham and Scam called the Common Core - Wait What?

The Sham and Scam called the Common Core - Wait What?:

The Sham and Scam called the Common Core




The Common Core test is designed to fail the vast majority of public schools students, including up to 9 in 10 students who aren’t proficient in the English Language or require special education help.
School districts have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on textbooks that don’t even align to the Common Core standards (See:  Vallas’ $10m textbook farce means Bridgeport students don’t have Common Core aligned math textbooks and Fairfield + Farmington – Giving CT kids math textbooks that are not aligned to Common Core)
Countless hours have been lost as teachers are pulled away from their instructional duties to “learn” about this expensive, warped, system that isn’t even developmentally appropriate for some younger students.
Fellow education blogger Mercedes Schneider is one of the nation’s leading voices in the effort to reveal the truth about the Common Core, the Common Core testing scheme and the other aspects of the corporate education reform industry.
Mercedes Schneider also has a new MUST READ book out about the Common Core called Common Core Dilemma – Who Owns Our Schools?
In the following article from her blog, she takes on the new corporate funded “spokesperson” for the Common Core scam.
Campbell Brown is going to help America understand what Common Core really is.
So she says as part of her July 28, 2015, interview with Jon Ward of Yahoo! Politics:
What we want to do with Common Core is explain it. Just put honesty and 
The Sham and Scam called the Common Core - Wait What?: