Comments on: How progressives got their agenda implemented so quickly (and in Utah) https://www.utahsrepublic.org/how-progressives-got-their-agenda-implemented-so-quickly/ A Constitutional Right Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Anonymous https://www.utahsrepublic.org/how-progressives-got-their-agenda-implemented-so-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-2882 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 23:55:00 +0000 https://www.utahsrepublic.org/?p=1723#comment-2882 In reply to Pamela.

A lot of rhetoric without the specifics.  Could you please be more specific.  You say that the CCSS are a poison capsule for Utah schools.  Show us how.   

]]> By: Pamela https://www.utahsrepublic.org/how-progressives-got-their-agenda-implemented-so-quickly/comment-page-1/#comment-2881 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:15:00 +0000 https://www.utahsrepublic.org/?p=1723#comment-2881 Very excellent analysis;  Susie is exactly right.  The most interesting observation I have seen with the Common Core Agenda is promoting the Standards without sharing the rest of the information on the Assessments, Curriculum and the Agenda of those who are behind it all.  The Standards are the least controversial part of the entire package, and it is the only part of the package that is ever addressed by those promoting it.  I believe many proponents have no idea that there is more to the standards than the standards themselves.  They do not stand alone.

The standards, by themselves, are a step up from the bottom and a step down from the top of former standards.  If you liken the standards to a capsule, it is easy to see that you can’t really analyze the contents of what is inside a capsule until it opens.  If you swallow it first, you are at the mercy of its content. 

Looking at Marc Tucker’s involvement in creating the CCSS, which parallels his writing in his “Dear Hillary letter” in 1992, reveals that CCSS and all that goes with it, did not originate in Utah, and will not be allowed to be adapted with flexibility and freedom. The goals are just the opposite.

Utah educators need to look inside the capsule of the standards before they decide to swallow it.  I strongly believe it is poison for all Utah schools.  

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