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Common Core lesson plans attack Ronald Reagan, list Abraham Lincoln's religion as 'liberal,' and suggest the 2000 election of George W. Bush was "unfair."

The board of the NY state teachers union unanimously withdrew its support for the Common Core standards — a major blow for CCore advocates who have been touting support from teachers as proof that the standards will succeed nationwide.

Once you control the curriculum in the schools, then you can dictate what students are supposed to think and feel, and how they are supposed to look at the world.

Reknowned scholars serving as members of the Common Core Validation Committee were sworn to secrecy, then “ignored,” and finally left to serve only as little more than “window dressing” to allow what many are now calling one of the greatest deceptions over the American p

Common Core will strip the next generation of the intellectual tools and information necessary to be engaged citizens, think for themselves and effectively oppose the ruling class. These are the most insidious effects Common Core will have on the American education system, and the most important reasons to oppose it.

An ordinary mother of three eviscerated Common Core state standards in her powerful four-minute testimony before the Arkansas Board of Education.

By failing to anticipate objections from grassroots conservatives, Common Core advocates are guilty of the soft bigotry of low expectations. 

Not only had Common Core been adopted by Colorado in '10, but Jefferson County School District, proposed to start a pilot program for software that would collect and analyze students' data. Parents are alarmed by privacy issues and alarming connections with “big business.” 

Six Repub-controlled states have halted or delayed implementation of Common Core standards. Twenty-six bills across 11 states related to Common Core are pending.