On the left, Common Core is derided as yet another manifestation of the education reform movement’s obsessive rationalization and data fetishism. Chicago Teachers Union president Karen Lewis, for example, recently came out against the new standards, describing them as “an overreach of federal power into personal privacy as well as into state educational autonomy” that “eliminates creativity in the classroom and impedes collaboration.” And on the right? Well, the antipathy is often no less pronounced, but as a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center shows, the criticisms leveled against the Common Core by right-wing extremists tend to be, in a word, crazy. Often, they’re far less about the standards themselves than a generalized hatred for secularism and public education, one that has roots stretching all the way back to the 1950s and is most pronounced among religious Southern conservatives who worry Big Brother is trying to turn their progeny liberal. salon/2014/05/16/wingnuts_common_core_insanity_newest_craziest_attack_on_public_schools_yet/
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:01:50 +0000
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