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Attention, Parents! This Professor Shares Some Facts About Common Core That May Shock You
Have you heard about Common Core? The chilling truth behind these new national educational “standards” will terrify you. Common Core represents the latest and most comprehensive step in the drive toward complete government control of our children’s education. Join us for a special presentation exposing the truth about Common Core and the ongoing struggle to roll back its implementation. Dr. Duke Pesta provides examples of how Common Core threatens to further undermine, weaken, and centralize public and private education in our country.
Pesta received his M.A. in Renaissance literature from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University.
He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges, and his been active in education reform, developing and implementing an elective Bible course that is currently available for public high school students in Texas. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. - https://www.fpeusa.org/
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http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/08/25/a-monstrous-story-for-a-monstrous-curriculum-the-ugly-heart-of-common-core/
http://www.teamnetworks.net/blog/2296/attacks-on-common-core-curriculum-beset-with-false/
Sam J Duckworth. (20-year English teacher): I am not endorsing Common Core per se. Still have reservations about Fed Dept of Ed prescribing specific content in public schools. In the past the feds and the state depts of ed tried to reach a consensus on common curriculum goals, and that seems to be the better approach to me. On the other hand, I’ve seen English teachers justify using A Christmas Carol to advance virtually any curriculum goal. These Common Core goals may force them to both broaden and deepen their teaching techniques.
I am definitely against the use of classic literature, or the misunderstanding of it, to advance political goals in devious ways. Ms. Dana R Casey has done precisely that in a score of internet venues. From the comments on her blog, it is obvious that few bothered to read Maupassant’s story or check the logic of her argument, which is based on the most juvenile of misunderstandings. Read my reply at
http://duckworthsam.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/bourgeois-monstrosities-a-reply-to-dana-r-caseys-a-monstrous-story-for-a-monstrous-curriculum/
Mr. Duck,
Clearly my analysis of The Mother of Monsters was not clear to you or perhaps too subtle. You seem to confuse my point. My analysis was not of Maupassant’s story, if fact I believe he would be absolutely horrified at how it was used in this unit, nor do I believe that the message I presented was the message HE intended. It was the essay question the module used in connection with the story that misinterpreted the story and forced one to draw a rather perverse interpretation. Did you NOT understand that was my criticism. I would say that your reading of my analysis was rather juvenile and utterly reactionary.