Common Core is no more but it still lives by other names and continues to wreak havoc on OUR K-12 public education system while damaging children and driving want-to-be teachers into other professions. Common Core by any name is still the best weapon the enemies of the United States have to destroy America from within.
Nicholas Tampio, a professor of political science at Fordham University, has noticed a strange silence about Common Core, which was the hottest issue in K-12 just a few years ago. The silence does not mean that the issue has gone away.
Tampio writes:
The Common Core lives, unfortunately
On June 16, Emily Richmond of the Education Writers Association led off a lively social media exchange by tweeting: “Hey, remember the Common Core?”
One special education researcher replied that the Common Core is “implemented now in every classroom in America just under another name.”
Another teacher tweeted: “You mean what NY conveniently rebranded as “Next Generational Learning Standards”? It’s never gone away. 😞”
People also responded with memes of actors saying “Shhh!” and “We do not speak his name.”
Here, I would like to explain how the Common Core is implemented in nearly every…
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