What is Common Core?: Education Reform, Policy and History

WHAT IS COMMON CORE?

Cutting through the hype from supporters and defenders of the CCSS, this book documents the process for the adoption and implementation of the Common Core, which was developed as the result of politicians and business men deciding to create change in the education community so the U.S. could compete better in the global marketplace.

This insightful critique focus on these issues:
1. A national curriculum is banned by federal law, yet the CCSS found political backdoors to make it happen.
2. A national student database is banned by federal law but privacy laws were gutted so the CCSS could access unprecedented information.
3. Constructivism Mathematics, the basis of Common Core math, is an unproven theory of education.
4. New Criticism Literary Analysis, the basis of Common Core ELA, is an unproven theory of education.
5. The CCSS, a public policy document, is privately copyrighted and can't be changed, modified, or corrected.