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Common Core’s Aim ‘Is to Make Proletarians of Us All,’ Study Finds
Monday, May 5, 2014 11:58
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pro·le·tar·i·an noun
ˌprō-lə-ˈter-ē-ən:
a person who has low social status : a member of the working class
by Barbara Boland, CNS News:
Given the dramatic reduction in time spent on literature “implicitly mandated by” Common Core’s “national standards, and the ambivalence, if not hostility, of the standards writers towards literature,” poetry may not survive in classrooms, says a new study by Pioneer Institute.
“The Common Core proponents do not like poetry,” conclude the authors of “The Dying of the Light: How Common Core Damages Poetry Instruction“:
“The aim here is to depress and level, not to ennoble. It is to make proletarians of us all.”
