Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education Audiobook
Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and Public Education Audiobook
- Jeremy Lowell
- Simon & Schuster Audio
- 2014-05-06
- 6 h 14 min
Summary:
#1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck considers the hot-button issue of education in the US, exposing the weaknesses of the normal Core college curriculum and examining why liberal solutions fail.
Public education is certainly never mentioned in the constitution. Why? Because our founders knew that it had been a concern for condition and local governments-not the federal one.
It’s not really a coincidence the more the government provides inserted itself into public education over about Conform: Exposing the Truth About Common Core and General public Education the years, the even worse our kids have fared. Washington dangles millions of dollars in front of states and tells them what they need to do to obtain it. It’s backdoor nationalization of education-and it’s leading us to mess up.
In Conform, Glenn Beck presents a well-reasoned, fact-based analysis that proves it’s not more money our schools need-it’s an entire refocusing of their priorities and a total restructuring of their relationship with the government. In the process, he dismantles many of the common common myths and talking points that tend to be heard by those that want to safeguard the position quo.
Critics of the current system are simply “teacher bashers”…Instructors’ unions place kids initial…Homeschooled babies suffer both academically and socially…“local control” is an excuse to safeguard mediocrity…Common Core is certainly “strenuous” and “state led”…Critics of Common Core are just conspiracy theorists…Elementary school teachers need tenure…We can’t reform universities until we eradicate poverty…college choice calls for money away from general public schools…Charter academic institutions perform poorly relative to public schools.
There is no issue more vital that you America’s future than education. The fact that we’ve yielded control over it to powerful unions and ideologically powered elitists is usually inexcusable. We are failing ourselves, our children, and our country. Conform provides parents the facts they need to get back the issue and help usher in a new era of education built around the commonsense principles of choice, independence, and accountability.