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Rotten to the Core (Part 2): Readin', Writin' and Deconstructionism

samplin Wrote: Jan 25, 2013 11:30 AM
You are correct about learning English and mathematics. All else is easier when language and math basic skills are in place. Teaching of formal grammar was diseappearing from public schools in the last third of the 20th Century. In 1959, a parent of one my friends told me, "If you wish to be taken seriously, speak and write the English language correctly."

(This is the second part of an ongoing series on federal "Common Core" education standards and the corruption of academic excellence.)

The Washington, D.C., board of education earned widespread mockery this week when it proposed allowing high school students -- in the nation's own capital -- to skip a basic U.S. government course to graduate. But this is fiddlesticks compared to what the federal government is doing to eliminate American children's core knowledge base in English, language arts and history.

Thanks to the "Common Core" regime, funded with President Obama's stimulus dollars and bolstered by duped Republican governors and business groups, deconstructionism...

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