9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up

1. He went on to state his faith that Common Core  at that point unwritten  would not only make America's entire education system the envy of the world, but we will launch a Race to the Top that will prepare every child, everywhere in America, for the challenges of the 21st century. Race to the Top was a $4 billion money pot inside the 2009 stimulus that helped bribe states into Common Core.
2. Yet Obama went on stage last week and yukked it up about how Donald Trump goes around blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying. The man who sold us Common Core, who knew we couldn't keep our doctors and kept on promising we could, who lied umpteen ways to Sunday about his Iran deal and myriad other policies  he's sure got a lot of nerve.
3. Think tankers Michael Petrilli and Robert Pondiscio wrote to West Virginians in 2015 that The Common Core should help to boost college readiness — and college completion — by significantly raising expectations. Jeb Bush wrote in National Review in 2013, To compete with the rest of the world, we must produce competitive high-school graduates.
4. Once upon a time, Common Core critics were roundly mocked for fearing that the reading and math standards would somehow serve to promote sweeping ideological agendas; today, Gerson and her team are doing their best to vindicate those concerns, write Hess and Addison.
5. If young people today are to be productive adults in the knowledge economy, they need standards that truly prepare them for college and careers, Obama education secretary Arne Duncan said in a 2010 speech touting Common Core.
6. It's been about nine years since the Obama administration lured states into adopting Common Core sight unseen, with promises it would improve student achievement.
7. So if U.S. taxpayers spent billions of dollars and countless public employees man-hours switching schools to Common Core, what are we getting out of it? Certainly not academic achievement growth.

http://thefederalist.com/2018/11/05/9-years-common-core-test-scores-indoctrination/