ACT is now the official testing group for the Common Core Curriculum and therefore, no longer separate from the government plan to both take over the minds of your children and to separate them from you spiritually.
ACT is no longer an independent testing group. This is on their own website, or was last time I looked at it.
If it is true that 100 diocesan school systems have accepted CC, you parents in those dioceses must not send your kids to those schools.
I would like readers to comment and help me make a list of the Catholic school districts which have given in to the evil of CC.
If you want your children's lives to be in a database from kindergarten until the day they die, go ahead and send them to a CC school.
I would not want to explain to God on the day of my particular judgement how I colluded in the loss of faith in my children.
By the way, is it coincidence that the initials for the Common Core are the same as for the Catechism of the Catholic Church? CCC
You may has missed this article in October.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/11/29/Controversy-Intensifies-Among-Catholic-Educators-Over-Common-Core-Standards
Here is a snippet, and go back and look at the video on my blog.
In mid-October, a letter from over 130 Catholic scholars, initiated by University of Notre Dame law professor Gerard Bradley, was sent to the United States Catholic bishops, requesting that they abandon any implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
The letter states that the new standards do “a grave disservice to Catholic education” in that they are “contrary to tradition and academic studies on reading and human formation.”
Bradley and his fellow scholars also accused proponents of the Common Core of seeking to “transform ‘literacy’ into a ‘critical’ skill set, at the expense of sustained and heartfelt encounters with great works of literature.”
“In fact, we are convinced that Common Core is so deeply flawed that it should not be adopted by Catholic schools which have yet to approve it,” the letter reads, “and that those schools which have already endorsed it should seek an orderly withdrawal now.”
Promoters of Common Core say that it is designed to make America’s children “college and career ready.” We instead judge Common Core to be a recipe for standardized workforce preparation. Common Core shortchanges the central goals of all sound education and surely those of Catholic education: to grow in the virtues necessary to know, love, and serve the Lord, to mature into a responsible, flourishing adult, and to contribute as a citizen to the process of responsible democratic self-government.
And more here:
Anthony Esolen, an English professor at Providence College in Rhode Island and co-signer of Bradley’s letter, described the Common Core literary standards as teaching “the humanities without the humanity.”
Esolen said that changing Catholic education in response to state or government expectations for public schools has never been positive. He added that the type of student who is generally set apart in his class is not the Catholic school student, but a homeschooler.
“Homeschoolers clean everybody else’s clock, but they are not being taught with the AP test in mind,” he said.
Catholic educators, Esolen said, “need to go back to the roots: What is a human education, and what is a Catholic education? We have plenty of Catholic writers on that subject, going back for centuries.”
