Parents across the country may hold the key to this year's mid-term
elections as they vent their anger over the implementation of a controversial
education achievement measure called the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the initiative in a
bid, they say, to improve education standards in Math and English, and give new
life to what many view as a sagging education system. Indiana recently voted to
back out of Common Core.
But many parents see the initiative as a bid by the federal government to
take over the education system. They are also angry over the "data
mining" of students' personal information, and say the stepped-up
standards are not age-appropriate and are leading to anxiety and depression in
their children. Analysts warn the
parental opposition could spill over into the November elections.
"You really have a populist reaction, and that's true on the left and
the right," says Tom Loveless, a senior fellow with the Brown Center on
Education Policy at Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C……"It is already
becoming a primary and general election issue in everything from local school
board races to gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races," she added……"It
influences our vote because this reform is hurting our children," she
added. "It is cognitively inappropriate and violating our parent
rights."...To Read More....
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