Another Lesson In False History From David Barton

As part of our regular monitoring, we try to watch every David Barton presentation that we can find because, even though it is generally all of the same material, every once in a while he works in some absurd new point that we don’t want to miss.

But, for the most part, Barton’s presentation is more or less the same every time he delivers it, regardless of how it is billed, so even when he is supposedly speaking about “Why Common Core Is A Failure,” the presentation turns out to be the standard one that we have heard a hundred times before.

Listening to Barton repeat the same points time and again occasionally inspires us to do a bit of research into some of the more innocuous claims that he makes and, inevitably, we discover that even on these sorts of benign issues, Barton’s history cannot be trusted.