re: Common core continues to indoctrinate the young, with bogus history

quote:

---

this has not a damn thing to do with common core!

---

Common Core is not a curriculum. It is a set of standards around which curricula must be built to ensure that students meet those standards. When claims are made as to programs aligned to the Common Core, the truth is that no such curriculum exists off the shelf. For example, that's why I asked CC proponents exactly what texts or programs they were referencing earlier in the thread.

CC standards are designed to interface across disciplines. In theory, 19th century US history is taught in social studies at the same time 19th century US lit is being covered in English class. That's a good thing. Laudable.

CC stds are also designed to encourage students to engage more deeply and critically with the material they are learning. That should be a good thing.

But the devil is in the details. The CC technique for encouraging students to "engage more critically" can entail presenting marginal material along side quality sources as equivalent to stimulate student involvement. Much as with teaching Creationism along side Evolution, it enables predisposed students to accept BS as legitimized classroom material. In this case, that's how the OP has to do with CC.

quote:

---

common core standards pertain only to English and math

---

Standards include: English Language arts, History/Social Studies, Science, Mathematics, and Technical Subjects ( LINK)