Blog The Trouble With Common Core Share This Post Education / National News The Trouble With Common Core By redkudzu_admin on May 7th 2014 No Comments / 73 views George Will made an incisive and spirited case against the Common Core on Tuesday’s “Special Report With Bret Baier. Earlier in the broadcast Michelle Rhee, whose efforts in education have earned her deserved admiration, was invited on to make the case for Common Core. She reverted to the gobbledygook language that educators too often use, and failed to make a persuasive case that the Core is good for public-school students, and will help them, and our country, in the long run. My conversations with several Core proponents over the past few weeks leave me with the sense they fell in love with an abstraction and gave barely a thought to implementation. But implementation—how a thing is done day by day in the real world—is everything. There is a problem, for instance, with a thing called “ObamaCare.” That law exists because the people who pushed for it fell in love with an abstract notion and gave not a thought to what the law would actually do and how it would work. Read more… Leave a Reply Cancel ReplyYou must be logged in to post a comment. Login with: Continue with Facebook Continue with Google Continue with Twitter Common Core Education Share This Post redkudzu_admin The goal of this site is to give information. Whether from national sites or locally in Georgia. Related Articles COMMON CORE HAS LED TO ‘HISTORIC’ DROP IN ACHIEVEMENT SCORES, STUDY FINDS May 6th 2020 Watch This 100-Year-Old Teacher Explain Why She Really Hates Common Core December 9th 2014 #STOPHR5: TWITTER RALLY TO STOP NCLB RE-DO FROM CEMENTING COMMON CORE IN PLACE February 26th 2015