A Man without Shame

Of course, it was all a lie. The lofty promises and the thrilling rhetoric about Common Core educational reform have produced yet another great failure.

Thanks to the Obama administration and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation America’s schoolchildren have suffered nine years of Common Core education. These children have lost ground academically. They can barely read or do math. They are falling behind their peers around the world.

But, if you are looking for the worst part, Common Core reformers are using the program to indoctrinate children in the dogmas of anti-racism.

Joy Pullmann explains the results of standardized tests:

ACT scores released earlier this month show that students’ math achievement is at a 20-year low. The latest English ACT scores are slightly down since 2007, and students’ readiness for college-level English was at its lowest level since ACT’s creators began measuring that item, in 2002. Students’ preparedness for college-level math is at its lowest point since 2004.

SAT scores also dropped post-Common Core until it fully implemented a new version tailored for Common Core. How convenient. Even after the test was overhauled to match Common Core, average test scores increased by 0.7 percent in the most recent results. It represents almost no difference to pre-Common Core results, and the public can’t know exactly how the scores were recentered and altered, either.

In all the previous SAT overhauls, average scores technically went up but statistical analyses show they’ve actually been steadily losing ground over the past 60 years. In other words, the SAT has a history of score inflation, and Common Core is doing nothing to reverse that.

Score inflation, tailoring tests to compensate for children’s incompetence-- how is that going to make America more competitive.

Pullmann concludes:

Common Core sucked all the energy, money, and motivation right out of desperately needed potential reforms to U.S. public schools for a decade, and for nothing. It’s more money right down our nation’s gigantic debt hole, another generation lost to sickening ignorance, another set of corrupt bureaucrats‘ careers and bank accounts built out of the wreckage of American minds.

Yet Obama went on stage last week and yukked it up about how Donald Trump goes around “blatantly, repeatedly, baldly, shamelessly lying.” The man who sold us Common Core, who knew we couldn’t keep our doctors and kept on promising we could, who lied umpteen ways to Sunday about his Iran deal and myriad other policies — he’s sure got a lot of nerve. And obviously not a lick of self-awareness, yet alone shame.

Unfortunately, at our current historical juncture, the media will never, ever call out Obama, on his lie or on his failed policies. A man without shame, Pullmann aptly calls him.