For those who think our school system has gotten off track by embracing a multitude of failed methods, I have some good news.

There is a very aggressive new book that names names, deconstructs theories, and explains that the worst sort of people are taking over our schools and our economy. The author's message is that we have to understand what's going on and stop it, otherwise all the lights are going to be turned off. Specifically, everyone needs to realize that Common Core is your standard Trojan horse. Or if you don't like classical references, it's like the blankets given to Indians several centuries ago, blankets infected with smallpox.

 Here are typical quotes:

“I have often wondered if colleges of education taught their students that it was possible for people to fly and laid out the steps, how many children would have to hit the pavement before the ‘professionals’ would reconsider what they were told.”

“Now you understand the need to both nationalize Radical Ed Reform and internationalize it. No more outlaw schools, public or private, districts, states, or countries determined to still create well-informed fluent readers with solid math and science knowledge and skills...The idea is for there to be no way out, even in private schools.”

“For now though we should best view education as a re-imagined means for an international political class and their business cronies to obtain the same type of riches and control as what the nomenklatura sought globally under Communism.”

I just posted a review of this book, a review that mainly consists of 30 quote like these three. I thought this was the quickest way to give a sense of the book. At this time there are nine reviews on Amazon; mine is the last one.

Community leaders, especially, should read this book so they'll know what's going on behind their backs.

http://www.amazon.com/Credentialed-Destroy-Education-Became-Weapon/...

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