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The Doctrine of Common Core: Raising public education standards do little in our modern economy

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Ali Hangan

The advocates of common core have their heart in the right place, but the assumptions behind common core amount to no more than a wish list in light of a fractured school to work model and a rapidly changing economy. If industry and the future American workforce are looking outside of the public school system for economic opportunity than so should policy makers look elsewhere to expand Democracy for future generations.


 

 

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Ali Hangan is high school teacher in Pomona, California.

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