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by Sol Stern (Author), Peter W. Wood (Author)
Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea)
by Sol Stern
by Peter W. Wood The latest effort to fix America's schools has backfired. In 2007, an elite group of would-be reformers devised a brilliant political strategy to transform education without ever facing public scrutiny. Their bold strategy, which became the Common Core State Standards, was astonishingly successful - for a while. Then the American public took notice. In this Broadside, Peter W. Wood explains how the Common Core actually lowers standards while pretending to raise them and chokes off local control of our schools in favor of domination by the federal government and private groups. Bankrolled by the Gates Foundation, favored by political elites, and supported by true believers on both sides of the political spectrum, the Common Core once appeared unstoppable. But it can be stopped, and this book shows us how.
Author Biography
Sol Stern is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for City Journal. He has written about education reform and about the Israel-Palestine conflict for many publications, including Commentary and the New Criterion. He is the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice and the Encounter Broadside A Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred.
Peter W. Wood is president of the National Association of Scholars and a former college provost and professor of anthropology. He is the co-author with Michael Tuscano of What Does Bowdoin Teach? and the author of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now.
Number of Pages: 96
Dimensions: 0.4 x 6.9 x 4.7 IN
Publication Date: September 23, 2014
