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Common Core & White Priviledge Compared By Professor That Helped Develop Controversial Standards

Thursday, May 22, 2014 19:46

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TND Guest Contributor: Christine McCoy |

Our friends at Campus Reform, a project of the Leadership Institute, have a breaking story you may find appalling. Campus Reform usually reports on college and university issues. This time they have some news on the Common Core controversy.

The New Hampshire Institute of Politics held a forum Monday evening, and a funny thing happened.

One of the presenters, Dr. David Pook, a professor and developer of the Language Arts Common Core Standards, teaches at a predominately white school where tuition is over $28,000. He had this to share:

“The reason why I helped write the standards and the reason why I am here today is that as a white male in society I am given a lot of privilege that I didn’t earn.”

Though he helped write the standards, Campus Reform reports that Dr. Pook’s school doesn’t use the standards because they consider them inferior.

You may want to read the whole thing over at Campus Reform.

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Christine McCoy is the Training and Outreach Manager for the Citizen Watchdog Team. She loves an open, limited, and free market based government and works in her spare time to make it that way.

Christine McCoy writes for Watchdog.org‘s Watchdog Wire. Watchdog.org is an online news organization that publishes articles by independent journalists covering state-specific and local government activity. The program began in September 2009, a project of Franklin Center for Government & Public Integrity, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting new media journalism.