A Crash Course in Common Core

Jane Robbins of the American Principals Project shares her expertise on education reform in the United States. The American Principals Project is one of the leading organizations on the front line in the war against Common Core..

Jane Robbins,  Common Core: Dangers And Threats To American Liberty And Education Part one of five. [You Tube Link]

Jane Robbins testifies on Data Collection in schools.
[You Tube Link]

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This more-recent video by Dr. Duke Pesta, gives a more up to date report than the above video by Jane Robbins. Dr. Pesta speaks of new subjects added to the CC curriculum. 

Brilliant anti-Common Core Speech by Dr. Duke Pesta.
[You Tube Link]

Dr Pesta is  brilliant and passionate in this information-packed presentation. [This is 2 hours long,]]
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Dr. Sandra Stotsky, Professor Emerita at the Unversity of Arkansas, served on the Common Core Validation Committee, as THE ONLY content expert in English Language Arts.  Dr. Stotsky refused to sign off on the standards, for lack of quality, and has been traveling across the Nation since, denouncing Common Core State Standards--exposing them for what they are.

 Common Core’s Invalid Validation Committee

--Report by Dr. Sandra Stotsky  

[you tube Link]

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Whistle blower, Charlotte Iserbyt--formally with the U.S. Department of Education and author of The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America--reveals the big picture of public education in the United States; of which Common Core is only the latest development.

[You Tube Link] 

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Video:   Common Core Standards by Dr. Peg Luksik

Dr. Peg Luksik--elementary school teacher of 35 years and  former advisor to the U.S. Department of Education--gives an insightful presentation on the hidden intent and dynamics of Common Core.

She notes:

"The Standards are not for the Schools. The Standards are for Your Child."--Dr. Peg Luksik
"Common Core is not something the government is doing FOR the child but something the Government is doing TO the child."

"The child is not the client, it is The Product"--Dr. Peg Luksik

Video: Common Core summarized in 2 minuets

Here Dr. Luksik puts Common Core in a nutshell.

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What is Critical Thinking?

"Critical thinking" has become a fashionable buzz phrase these days. This variety of thinking is promoted in Common Core as an essential skill for 2ist century learning. 

But, what is critical thinking? And where does the term come from?

Taking first things first, critical thinking means exactly what it sounds like. It means thinking like a critic. It means looking for the flaws in a thing...be it a movie, a meal, or a government...and judging that thing by virtue of its flaws. 

It's as simple as that.

What Common Core neglects to do is inform the student (and their parents) that critical thinking comes from "Critical Theory"--a sociological theory (of sorts) contrived by a Marxist named Max Horkhiemer, who, in the early 20th century, was among the school which agonized over the failure of Marxism in America; and endeavored to come up with a new strategy...other than the usual slaughtering millions of people who might not agree with the beauty of Communism. The new strategy Came to be known as Cultural Marxism, and can characterized in one word: "Subversion":
1) Destroy the family
2) Destroy private property
3) Destroy religion
4) Destroy the nation

How is it working so far?

The two video clips below go into more detail. In one of them, the narrator tells you that Horkhiemer takes the Marx perspective in criticizing American values...with examples:

• Was Abe Lincoln really honest?
• Did the white land-owners/slave-owners who wrote the Constitution consider themselves as "the People", while excluding African slaves and women as People?
• Is the traditional nuclear family really a wholesome place to raise children?

In Common Core, these are actual questions our kids are instructed to exercise their critical thinking skills on. They are given part of the facts (the bad part) and directed to take it from there.

The Frankfurt School and Critical Theory

This second video, "Critical Theory", is pretty hokey; and I am not going to vouch for it. However, it is a fine example of how Critical Theory can be turned back on the Commies who invented it.