Letters

No common sense

Our nation’s states are blindly adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This national initiative rambles on without any evidence to support its efficacy. This movement to reform schools in the USA is being driven largely by ideology, rhetoric and dogma instead of any evidence.

Keep in mind, the CCSS were never, that is never, field-tested in any classroom in the USA! The vendors of the CCSS will gross over three billion dollars in revenue just printing, selling and grading the CCSS mandatory classroom tests.

Public education falls into the political arena. Now is the t...