Conservative critics ignore how the Common Core Standards support teaching all students about the nation's rich heritage of constitutional government, which is often overlooked in K-12 schools. For example, one of the Common Core's reading standards [in English] for grades 9-10 calls for students to analyze and understand the arguments in "seminal U.S. texts, including the application of constitutional principles and use of legal reasoning." How many American public schools do that today?That sounds so great. Too bad there's no evidence it's true. Neither are most of the other things Stern and the hardly right-wing Klein want Americans to believe about centrally planned education.
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