Monday, May 27, 2013

‘Common Core’ Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum

This is a good article by Ron Paul on our educational system.

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Bruce

'In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called “conservative” Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the “No Child Left Behind” act. During my time in Congress I heard nothing but complaints about this law from teachers, administrators, and, most importantly, students and parents. Most of the complaints concerned No Child Left Behind’s testing requirements, which encouraged educators to “teach to the test.”'

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