In fact, the Common Core is a federally promoted education initiative introduced in the Obama administrations 2009 stimulus bill through a competitive grant program called Race to the Top (RttT). States could apply and compete for federal grant money as long as they adopted the Common Core, a set of uniform standards and aligned curricula and testing that allow for a greater role of government in education, higher levels of social engineering, student data collection, and teacher evaluations based on student performance on assessments aligned with the standards.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:40:42 +0000
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