Common Core Winners & Losers

According to Dr. Stephen Krashen, professor emeritus at the University of Southern California, there will be a 20-fold increase in testing if Common Core takes over America’s schools. Much of that will be online, bringing greater profits not only for Pearson, but also for software companies such as Bill Gates’ Microsoft.

Clearly, those who will benefit from Common Core are not the students – America’s children. Rather, hundreds of millions in profits will go to educational textbook and testing companies like Pearson and Microsoft.

One other group will also benefit from the Obama administration’s move to standardize education across the states – the bureaucrats at UNESCO and its associated NGOs. Unless the Common Core takeover of America’s schools is stopped, these bureaucrats and the progressives who shill for them can happily envision an America that is finally becoming the land of the subjugated and the home of the cowering as children are taught to be compliant global citizens.

Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/obama-program-making-these-people-filthy-rich/#PC15FsAve83uJf23.99

This piece highlights the people and organizations behind Common Core.  It also points out who the real winners and losers are - you will find that our kids are the losers and the winners are the ones pushing the effort, financially profiting from it and gaining power and control over our kids and the country.  Quote: "...those who will benefit from Common Core are not the students - America's children.  Rather, hundreds of millions in profits will go to educational textbook and testing companies like Pearson and Microsoft."  The details are gut-wrenching.  This is the second in a two part series.  Please read the first part, too.  It's linked in the article.   http://www.wnd.com/2014/03/obama-program-making-these-people-filthy-rich/

Examples of idiotic common core challenges given school children and many parent reactions.   http://www.americanthinker.com/2014/05/education_that_you_know_is_sick.html

Common core is so bad that these college students don't understand it.   http://eaglerising.com/6195/common-core-math-confuses-college-students/ 

The below items are not directly related to Common Core, but are suggestive of the progressive and secular humanist philosophes that spawned it.

This is just one example that not all teachers are people you want in the classroom.  objective http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/15/what-a-teacher-was-caught-on-tape-telling-students-has-him-under-investigation/

PC culture is destroying honest and open debate and as well as intellectual honesty.   http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/05/purdue_university_and_my_hate_speech.html

A bit of history discussing the damage done to education over the past 50 years by the federal government.  http://blog.heritage.org/2014/05/19/federal-government-hasnt-improved-education-trying-50-years/   and here   http://www.humanevents.com/2014/05/20/a-legendary-failure-of-liberalism/

Folks, if parents, grandparents and concerned citizens do not fight this tragedy we will be failing our kids and our country.  Please, I beg you, do your own objective research and if you agree that it is dangerous do your part to stop it.

George Burns