{"product_id":"common-core-yea-nay-paperback","title":"Common Core: Yea \u0026 Nay - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSol Stern\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003ePeter W. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (\u003ci\u003eCommon Core: Yea\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eby Sol Stern\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the past few decades - as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education - the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from America's classrooms. Now, for all its faults, the Common Core State Standards represent the best opportunity we have to restore that structure in our schools. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this Broadside, Sol Stern shows how both sides of the education spectrum have misrepresented the Common Core. The left regards the standards as a threat to their ideological hegemony, while conservative pundits lack a true understanding of what they actually provide. Americans should see the Common Core as an opening to restore academic content to the nation's schools and reverse the influence of educational progressivism in our classrooms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhy the Common Core Is a Bad Idea (\u003ci\u003eCommon Core: Nay\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003cbr\u003eby Peter W. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSol Stern\u003c\/b\u003e is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor for \u003ci\u003eCity Journal\u003c\/i\u003e. He has written about education reform and about the Israel-Palestine conflict for many publications, including \u003ci\u003eCommentary\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew Criterion\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eBreaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice\u003c\/i\u003e and the Encounter Broadside \u003ci\u003eA Century of Palestinian Rejectionism and Jew Hatred\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter W. Wood\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eWhat Does Bowdoin Teach? \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of \u003ci\u003eDiversity: The Invention of a Concept and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now.\u003c\/i\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.9 x 4.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 23, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47224484233465,"sku":"9781594038198","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/Gk7rGBli6t9781594038198.webp?v=1768237637","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/common-core-yea-nay-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}