Last week The Federalist published a story that really doesn’t surprise many, if not most,  of us: Common Core has not lived up to its hype. Another generation has been cheated out of its education in the name of progressive wishful thinking and billions of misspent dollars, mostly gone to people who did know what they were doing.

9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up

By Joy Pullmann
NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It’s been about nine years since the Obama administration lured states into adopting Common Core sight unseen, with promises it would improve student achievement. Like President Obama’s other big promises — “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor” — this one’s been proven a scam.

“If you set and enforce rigorous and challenging standards and assessments; if you put outstanding teachers at the front of the classroom; if you turn around failing schools — your state can win a Race to the Top grant that will not only help students outcompete workers around the world, but let them fulfill their God-given potential,” President Obama said in July 2009.

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