"the children belong to all of us”

The Center for American Progress from a panel discussing Common Core standards for education.

While one may have any opinion about Common Core the blase insouciance about the idea that someone’s children ‘belong to all of us’ is rather revelatory of a state of mind, and what is accepted, and settled social science  in the mind of CAP and most likely across the spectrum of Sorosian efforts (CAP is just one, albeit a key one).

The idea that the children belong to a collective ‘us’ was one of the more disgusting aspects of the USSR, and is a KEY component of ANY unified, totalitarian system.

While that is not the case here in the USA, the thinking of the left,the state of mind of these people is past alarming.

John Podesta, newly minted adviser to Obama, left the Clinton admin to become the head of CAP, where was until his recent appt.

The Common Core websitedescribes the creation and mission of the standards as follows:

“The nation’s governors and education commissioners, through their representative organizations the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) led the development of the Common Core State Standards and continue to lead the initiative.”

“Teachers, parents, school administrators and experts from across the country together with state leaders provided input into the development of the standards,” reads the website.

But critics such as Lindsey Burke, a Will Skillman Fellow in Education Policy at The Heritage Foundation who has studied the standards, said the initiative is about federal funding and centralizing education rules.

“Common Core was developed by two national organizations, it’s adoption incentivized with billions in federal funding and waivers from the onerous provisions of No Child Left Behind, and the national tests funded with federal grants,”Burke said.

“These are not the hallmarks of a ‘state-led’ process,” she said. “Moreover, these are not high standards.”

“They are, to reference the work of Stanford Professor of Mathematics Emeritus James Milgram, standards that prepare students for ‘non-selective community colleges,’” Burke said. “The English Language Arts standards de-emphasize the reading of fiction and classic literature in favor of informational texts.”

“But most concerning, Common Core removes the ability of parents and teachers to direct academic content and will have a homogenizing effect on the educational choices available to families,” Burke said.