People need to wake up and get INVOLVED. This administration has done more damage to us AND our children than ANY OTHER
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October 9, 2014 - 1:50 PM
By
Rob Schwarzwalder
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) for public education are often in the news, and
Family Research Council has taken a strong stand against them.
Critics of the CCSS raise a number of key concerns, ranging from the content of the standards to the manner of their implementation. However, there is one primary issue that must not be lost in the discussion: The federal government's role in education.
Simply put, according to the Constitution, the federal government really has no enumerated role in education. That's why we have states, political entities through which parents and responsible adults can develop curricula for their children's education at a much more local level than one dictated by a federal bureaucracy.
Are federal bureaucrats ill-motivated? Do supporters of the federal Department of Education wish to undermine the republic? Are business leaders worried about the decline of what the late management theorist Peter Drucker called "knowledge workers" - employees who have the high-tech training necessary to keep our country competitive in the increasingly integrated global economy - animated only greed?
My own answer to these questions is no. Motivations tend to be complex and often rationalized. More than this, many advocates of the CCSS believe that without them, our economic future will be more bleak than otherwise and that young people will graduate from high school ill-prepared for the professional challenges of the 21st century.
That said, there are myriad problems with Common Core, as FRC's Senior Fellow Sarah Perry has
documented. But let's say that the substance of the standards was hailed universally as outstanding and that nothing else about their content or marketing or effectiveness was in question. One issue would remain: The fact that the Constitution of the United States provides no basis for federal intervention in education.
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