{"id":42087,"date":"2014-05-19T21:16:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/common-core-and-the-end-of-the-world.html"},"modified":"2014-05-20T11:44:11","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T17:44:11","slug":"common-core-and-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/common-core-and-the-end-of-the-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Common Core and THE END OF THE WORLD!"},"content":{"rendered":"
There are all sorts of reasons one might criticize the Common Core educational reforms from a pedagogical standpoint. But it seems to bring out the lunatic crazy<\/i> in some folks in a way that, unfortunately, defuses any rational debate over what it does and the reasoning behind it.\ufeff<\/div>\n

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Florida Lawmaker: Common Core Will Turn \u2018Every One Of Your Children\u2019 Gay<\/a>
\n Florida State Rep. Charles Van Zant (R) uncovers the awful truth behind increased educational standards.\n <\/p>\n

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There are all sorts of reasons one might criticize the Common Core educational reforms from a pedagogical standpoint. But it seems to bring out the lunatic crazy in some folks in a way that, unfortunately, defuses any rational debate over what it does and the reasoning behind it.\ufeff Florida Lawmaker: Common Core Will Turn \u2018Every … Continue reading “Common Core and THE END OF THE WORLD!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,100,46],"tags":[586],"class_list":["post-42087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-dolts","category-school-daze","tag-pluspost"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":47932,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/11\/11\/a-pretty-decent-review-of-what-common-core-is-and-is-not.html","url_meta":{"origin":42087,"position":0},"title":"A pretty decent review of what Common Core is (and is not)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Nov-14 9:33am","format":false,"excerpt":"Common Core has arisen from a variety of societal and political changes in the US. Ironically, a lot of the folk most upset about it are the folk who started this in motion: demands for teacher accountability (\"Break the teachers unions!\") required objective measures, which led to more standardized testing,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":32493,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/10\/common-core-in-colorado.html","url_meta":{"origin":42087,"position":1},"title":"Common Core in Colorado","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 10-Feb-13 11:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I seem to recall some earlier criticism about Common Core as potentially dragging English lessons away from poetry and fiction, but the emphasis in this article, at least, is on non-fiction writing being a signficant part (instead of text books) of other parts of the curriculum.Two aspects of this are\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136492,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/18\/education-these-days.html","url_meta":{"origin":42087,"position":2},"title":"Education These Days!","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 18-May-18 10:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"No, wait, the real cause of school shootings (per Fox News commentators) is ... the Common Core curriculum? \"Something that I don\u2019t think anybody has mentioned and it\u2019s probably not going to be popular, but we have to look at this Common Core curriculum, which takes emotionally disturbed kids and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/unnamed.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128129,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/22\/math-methodology-mediocrity-and-common-core-gasp.html","url_meta":{"origin":42087,"position":3},"title":"Math, Methodology, Mediocrity … and Common Core (gasp!)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 22-Sep-15 7:14am","format":false,"excerpt":"I entered elementary school just as the New Math (1960s style -- the one Tom Lehrer sang about [https:\/\/youtu.be\/UIKGV2cTgqA]) was coming in. 2nd Grade? 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