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Document Type: | Book |
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Nicholas Tampio |
ISBN: | 9781421424637 1421424630 |
OCLC Number: | 1004424750 |
Description: | ix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction. Do we need a Common Core? -- Arguments for national education standards -- Arguments against national education standards -- English standards, close reading, and testing -- Math standards, understanding, and college and career readiness -- Science standards, scientific unity, and the problem of sustainability -- History standards, American identity, and the politics of storytelling -- Sexuality standards, gender identity, and religious freedom -- Conclusion. Democracy, education standards, and local control -- Epilogue. Democracy and the test refusal movement. |
Responsibility: | Nicholas Tampio. |
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In Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy, Nicholas Tampio offers a concise and readable anatomy of the Common Core movement as well as a case against national standards generally. * Wall Street Journal * The book is brief, pithy, to-the-point and well-focused, making it a great gift for your civilian friend who wants a quick, accessible explanation of what all the fuss is about. * Curmudgucation * Common Core provides a useful reminder of how educators-together with parents, and civil society-should be engaged in a larger political process of how schools, curricula, and national standards are organized. -- Emmerich Davies * Perspectives on Politics * Read more...

