In his article,
Common Core is Rotten to the Core, Brian Farmer offers facts that
support his opposing opinion on the recently implemented education
standards called Common Core. Back in 2001, George Bush issued his
education policy No Child Left Behind because the nation was
thought to be at risk of a weak
educationsystem. It set high standards, thus failing to deliver
lasting success. In 2007, the National Governors Association and
the Council of Chief State
SchoolOfficers
started to work on a common set of standards in the math and
English curriculums. The next year, in 2008, those same
organizations, with the funding provided by the Gates Foundation,
started a federal education grant program known as Race to the
Top. In order for states to get the educational grant money, they
had to commit to a set of standards that outlined what students
have to know and must be able to do. Common Core also recently set
out to realign state standard
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The federal
governments efforts to overreach into education are not backed up
by the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution, which declares that any
power that is not given to the federal government is given to the
people or the states. So the power to oversee education belongs to
the states or to the people themselves, not to the federal
government. Two philosophical ideas that are integral to Common
Core are statism and progressivism. The statist goals intend to
overthrow accepted custom and traditional values that which in turn
will weaken parental influence. Progressively, the traditional
American values of individualism, self-reliance, and personal
responsibility are being rejected. This means that children are
being educated to accept a collectivist world view through Common
Core. Americans are likely to witness the differences that Common
Core is setting into action in the very near
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