API’s Gary Palmer Speaks Out Against Common Core Standards

Alabama Policy Institute president Gary Palmer recently wrote on the problems with common core standards.

The federal government now controls two major car companies, has wasted over $860 billion on a failed economic stimulus plan, taken over our health care system, put the nation’s banks and financial systems under its enormous thumb and attempted to restructure our entire economy with cap-and-trade legislation. Now, with the cooperation of governors and state school boards, they are striding toward taking control of our public schools.

This latest federal power grab is called “Common Core Standards.” Common Core will establish one national standard for curriculum and testing in an effort to raise the performance of American public school students.

Supporters of Common Core point to international tests and the poor performance of U.S. students, compared to nations that have national standards. They contend that for American students to compete, we need to standardize curriculum and testing. But opponents argue that this approach will simply standardize mediocrity.

Nations whose students are performing better than American students have nationalized curriculum and testing standards, but so do most of the nations whose students perform below our students. This indicates that the failure to achieve high academic outcomes is related to something besides the lack of a nationalized curriculum and testing.

Eagle Forum has been working hard to stop this power grab by the federal government.  To find out how you can help, click here.

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