Learning versus the Common Core

Forerunners: Ideas First

by Nicholas Tampio

An open challenge to Common Core's drive for uniformity Learning versus the Common Core explains how standards-based education reform is transforming nearly every aspect of public education. With a nod to the philosophy of John Dewey, Tampio concludes with a vision of what democratic education can look like today--and how people can form rhizomatic alliances across different political and ethical backgrounds to fight the Common Core.

102 pages, Paperback

Published March 26, 2019

Reviews

[Emily · Rating 1 out of 5]

There are plenty of critiques of Common Core, but this ain’t it.

[Andy · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book is odd to me because this series is usually so rigorous—this book doesn't even have references! I can understand many criticisms of Common Core but this is written by (and for) the aggrieved parent-activist, not the professor of political theory.

I should have just read some John Dewey lol

[Aaron Schuschu · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read about two thirds of it before I tore it to shreds in anger. How dare you. How dare you attempt to emotionally manipulate me into believing that others are emotionally manipulative. Content is not the problem. How about you go to the Creation Museum and see the real problem on full and shameless display- the forces of neoreaction astroturfing the derailment of classroom management. AND, I’d go as far as saying that kids today eschew answering how they got the answers to just answer the answers so that they’d have more time to indulge in socially acceptable substitutes for personality!