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The Truth about Common Core

Kathleen Porter-Magee and Sol Stern, education scholars at two right-of-center think tanks, set the record straight stating that the standards simply delineate what children should know at each grade level and describe the skills that they must acquire to stay on course toward college or career readiness. Common Core offers American students the opportunity for a far more rigorous, content-rich, cohesive K-12 education than most of them have had. Recently, the standards have come under a firestorm of criticism from tea-party activists and commentators such as Glenn Beck and Michelle Malkin. Beck calls the standards a stealth "leftist indoctrination" plot by the Obama administration. Malkin warns that they will "eliminate American children's core knowledge base in English, language arts and history." 

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