Debating the Common Core

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St. Francis College presented a debate on the heatedly discussed Common Core Curriculum between Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute and Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars on October 20.

The two offered insight on whether the Common Core advances or undermines academic achievement.

The event was organized by St. Francis Scholar in Residence Fred Siegel, a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute and author of The Revolt Against The Masses: How Liberalism Undermined the Middle Class. He has been instrumental in bringing a number of timely and provocative events to the College, including: New York’s New Digital Media, The Tension Between Catholic Schools & Charter Schools, Can You be Both a Business Success and Ethically Noble? and Lincoln, Grant and the Civil War.

About the Speakers
Sol Stern is a contributing editor of City Journal and a Manhattan Institute senior fellow. He writes passionately on education reform and his writings on that topic have helped shape the terms of the current debate in New York City.

Stern is the author of Breaking Free: Public School Lessons and the Imperative of School Choice. Aside from his work in City Journal, Stern’s articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Magazine, Commentary, The New Republic, the New York Daily News, Newsday, the Village Voice, New York Magazine, Sports Illustrated, and The New Statesmen.

Peter Wyatt Wood is an anthropologist and former provost. He was appointed president of the National Association of Scholars in January 2009. Before that he served as NAS’s executive director (2007-2008), and as provost of The King’s College in New York City (2005-2007).

Dr. Wood is the author of A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (Encounter Books, 2007) and of Diversity: The Invention of a Concept (Encounter Books, 2003) which won the Caldwell Award for Leadership in Higher Education from the John Locke Foundation. These books extend his anthropological interest in examining emergent themes in modern American culture.
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My beef with my kids' public school education is that it's boring and jumps around a lot based on "holidays" and other stuff instead of following a logical progression.

erinm
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There is something in the constitution about whether there can be a national curriculum or not.

Amendment 10:  The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

roseh
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Common core is NOT good! Dr. Wood, I agree with your comments 100%!

MLHPChanel
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i am home schooling my daughter... she is three and its hard for her to connect with other 3 years old bc they do not understand her intellect. so she socializes with 5 or 6 years old or anyone with common sense

nurfacealways
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If the common core isn't a curriculum why is it copyrighted?

hankkima
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“THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS ARE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT AND/OR OTHER APPLICABLE LAW. 
ANY USE OF THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS OTHER THAN AS AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS LICENSE OR COPYRIGHT LAW IS PROHIBITED. NGA Center/CCSSO shall be acknowledged as the sole owners and developers of the Common Core State Standards, and no claims to the contrary shall be made.”

Adonna
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Did you read any of John Taylor gatto book's " weapons of mass instructions" "the underground history of American Education by John Taylor gatto??

nikolavanzettiteslasacco
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This pro CC guy is disingenuous. I wish they had Dr. Duke Pesta on this panel. He would have eaten this guy alive!

EJ-vzst
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The United Kingdom has Community Purpose. Same crap

simplesimon
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why do these old guys get to decide what dozens of millions of children learn in school?

calebringger
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Why do have to change over to common core?!

deborahallen
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Does anybody know where I could find this 130 paged "infernal document" online?

ryanhickey
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The solution?
IQ test the teachers and grade them on the performance of their students. Teachers that can't get their students to know half the stuff they're supposed to know should be fired.

HolyknightVader
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Education was originally for teaching the Bible. Take the Bible out of a country schools and government and this is the result. Learn school history

skeletonrose
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So MO dictates what our children Micheal Obama tells me what to feed my

prereligionhorus
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This common core method is BS if you ask me, but there are definitely better ways than the old way to do arithmetic. Why screw your kid's mind by making it harder? See @ at @ @t I have very quickly become a Scott Flansburg fan!

rogersurf
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Omgosh I'm sorry but this is so boring and so long, judging by the vitality and enthusiasm of the first speaker, I highly doubt I would learn anything new that would lead me to believe that common core is not an evil construct to destroy the education system or at least it's teachers, students and misguided administrators. It's sick.

jodisplace