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Volume 4, containing 4 essays from the full work.
When an ideologically diverse array of the nation's top education activists and experts come together to speak out against the Common Core State Standards and related initiatives in education, the magnitude of the issue couldn't be more clear. This selection of essays from the original book covers several crucial aspects of the controversial standards, offering a highly informed and troubling picture of the dangers posed to students, families, education, and our society more broadly. The Common Ground publishing project also demonstrates that real dialogue and cooperation across political lines is not only possible but, in fact, imperative to defeat false reforms and re-establish pathways for true education that honor students, parents, and teachers alike.
Editor: Kirsten Lombard
Foreword: Ron Paul
In Volume 4:
1) Challenging Core Assumptions: What Does U.S. Performance on International Assessments Actually Tell Us? (Christopher H. Tienken)
2) Common Core and the Threat to Student Privacy (Jane Robbins)
3) Common Core Hits Home (Christine T.)
4) The Slippery Slope of Education Reform: Confusion, Complexities, and Concerns (Morna McDermott)
PRAISE FOR COMMON GROUND ON COMMON CORE
"The depth of scholarship, diversity of opinion and precision of analysis presented here make [this], quite simply, the best single resource for understanding and fighting back against Common Core that exists. Any parent, teacher, activist, or concerned citizen owes it to himself to pick up a copy and become educated on what is turning out to be a defining issue for our times." - Logan Albright, Policy Analyst, FreedomWorks (Washington Times, December 2014)
"[A] thoughtful presentation of why we must have a slow, deliberate government that always asks who will benefit when we implement any new programs but especially in education." - New York State Senator George Latimer (D-Rye) (October 2014)
"A brilliant, diverse compilation of essays, which will forever put to rest the notion that Common Core critics emanate exclusively from the Right Wing." -Dr. Gary Thompson, Author, Cracking the Da Vinci Code of Cognitive Assessment of African-American School-Aged Children, and Director, Clinical Training, Early Life Child Psychology & Education Center (October 2014)
"After just a few pages, I realized that this is the book we all need to read, and I hadn't even gotten to the essays. While reading the editor's note, I came across this statement... 'In truth, our problems almost all stem from Big Biz and Big Gove working hand in hand.' This is what I have complained about myself!... Each [essay] is logically written, without using the inflammatory terminology so often found in political discourse. They are all extensively annotated with source documentation and well-researched." -Gail Nelson, Editor in Chief, Learning Tangent Magazine (October 2014)
"Taken together, Common Ground on Common Core may be the single most devastating indictment of the standards to date. For one, through the tragic stories of parents and teachers, the book puts a human face on the real damage that is being inflicted on children--the suffering, the stress, the emotional harm, the dumbing down. it also offers a chilling window into what the future might look like if Americans do not rise up and put a stop to what the establishment has in mind." - Alex Newman, Investigative Journalist, The New American Magazine (January 2015)
"Parents, are you fighting the Common Core? Do you need ideas, facts, and arguments to push back against Big Business and Big Government? Then this book, with chapters by experts from across the political spectrum, is for you." - Nicholas Tampio, Associate Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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