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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.nbcnews.com/news/education/meet-americas-most-hardcore-anti-common-core-moms-n150146

What is most interesting about this article is that NBC has a grant from Gates to write this story.  Scroll down to the bottom.  I find that disturbing.[/quote]

This quote is just nonsense.

[quote]A chart folded into the conference packets contrasted “traditional classical learning” with CSCOPE and Common Core’s “radical social justice agenda”: teachers are “facilitators” rather “authority figures,” the lessons focus on “subjectivity, feelings, emotions, beliefs” rather than the “Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights, Constitution…phonics…Drill and Skill.” [/quote]

Common Core has no radical social justice agenda; it is a list of math and language arts standards.

Lessons don't focus on subjectivity, feelings, emotions,etc.   There are standards that require students to master math skills and language arts skills such as referring to the text to support your opinion.

Phonics most definitely IS emphasized in Common Core -- under foundational skills.

Complete nonsense.[/quote]

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