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The Obama administration has purchased states’ obedience by partially conditioning waivers from onerous federal regulations and receipt of federal largess on the states’ embrace of the Common Core. Although 45 states and the District of Columbia have struck this bargain, some are reconsidering and more will do so as opposition mounts. Many proponents seem to deem it beneath their dignity to engage opponents’ arguments, preferring to caricature opponents as political primitives and to dismiss them. Bill Gates: “It’s ludicrous to think that multiplication in Alabama and multiplication in New York are really different.” What is ludicrous is Common Core proponents’ disdain related to this fact: Fifty years of increasing Washington inputs into education has coincided with disappointing cognitive outputs from schools. Is it not imprudent to apply to education the federal touch that has given us healthcare.gov?
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 10:58:59 +0000

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