Left-Winger Andrew Hacker Slams Common Core

Hacker, with Claudia Dreifus, says tea partiers have it right on Common Core. See, "Who’s Minding the Schools?":

By definition, America has never had a national education policy; this has indeed contributed to our country’s ambivalence on the subject. As it stands, the Common Core is currently getting hit mainly from the right. Tea Party-like groups have been gaining traction in opposition to the program, arguing that it is another intrusion into the lives of ordinary Americans by a faceless elite. While we don’t often agree with the Tea Party, we’ve concluded that there’s more than a grain of truth to their concerns.

The anxiety that drives this criticism comes from the fact that a radical curriculum — one that has the potential to affect more than 50 million children and their parents — was introduced with hardly any public discussion. Americans know more about the events in Benghazi than they do about the Common Core.

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And maybe there is some bipartisan push back. See my earlier piece, "The So-Called 'Bipartisan Backlash' Against Common Core."