Add Education Secretary Arne Duncan as the latest Obama administration official to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease.<\/p>\n
Late last week the face of the controversial<\/a> Common Core curriculum standards tried to dismiss opposition in terms of race, class and gender. Categorizing opponents as \u201cwhite suburban moms,\u201d Duncan said bad performance on new standardized tests is the culprit.<\/p>\n \u201cAll of a sudden, their child isn\u2019t as brilliant as they thought they were and their school isn\u2019t quite as good as they thought\u2026 and that\u2019s pretty scary,\u201d Duncan told a group of superintendents.<\/p>\n It\u2019s pretty clear from his statements that Secretary Duncan doesn\u2019t have a clue how deep and wide Common Core\u2019s problems run.<\/p>\n Even though all but four states have adopted the Common Core State Standards<\/a> \u2013 which seek to nationalize math and language arts curriculum from kindergarten to 12th grade \u2013 grassroots opposition is bipartisan and fierce.<\/p>\n \u201cCatholic scholars say the standards aren\u2019t rigorous enough. Early childhood experts say they demand too much. Liberals complain the Common Core opens the door to excessive testing. Conservatives complain it opens the door to federal influence in local schools. Teachers don\u2019t like the new textbooks. Parent\u2019s don\u2019t like the new homework,\u201d reports Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n Those in Washington, D.C. who live to dictate rules to the rest of the country should take notice. It sounds like the Tea Party\u2019s ranks may be getting reinforcements just in time for the next election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Add Education Secretary Arne Duncan as the latest Obama administration official to suffer from foot-in-mouth disease. Late last week the face of the controversial Common Core curriculum standards tried to dismiss opposition in terms of race, class and gender. Categorizing opponents as \u201cwhite suburban moms,\u201d Duncan said bad performance on new standardized tests is the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[660,3380,64,28],"class_list":["post-19475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-arne-duncan","tag-common-core","tag-education","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19480,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19475\/revisions\/19480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}