Common Core standards not just about education
Every parent who has a child in the Plymouth public schools should know what the Common Core is. The Common Core is being touted as setting "rigorous standards" so our children will compete in the "global economy." But is this really so?
The Common Core is a federal education program designed so that if school districts wish to receive federal Race to the Top grant money, they have to adopt the Common Core State Standards. No longer will local school districts determine what the curriculums will be. Now it will be the federal government. All testing will be geared toward meeting the Common Core goals.
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