If you watched The Master’s on Sunday, you may have seen an ExxonMobile commercial for the Common Core State Standards. According to the ExxonMobile website,
ExxonMobil supports the efforts of local educators in 45 states who, along with community and business leaders, have come together to develop voluntary, rigorous Common Core State Standards in math and English. For the US to remain competitive globally, we must ensure all children, no matter where they live, are provided the best education possible and are prepared to go to work or college when they finish high school.
The second sentence does not follow from the first. There is no evidence that the Common Core will help schools provide “the best education possible.”
Regardless, lefties everywhere should be taking to the streets to oppose Common Core now that “big oil” is a fan.
H/T: MK
