| Description |
1 online resource (xxvii, 155 pages) |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 20, 2016). |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The historical matrix of the public school and standardized test -- Measurement mania, or, Tales from the dark side: measuring the measures and measurers -- The twitification of America: "facilitators" and the standardized test -- Elites, educators, facilitators, and foundations: Part one: Wundt, Americans and teachers as change agents -- The "edugarchy": standardized testing, and the cosmology of the global Skinner box -- "The business model" of billionaire busybodies: foundations and the educational-industrial complex -- "More " is neither better nor necessary: concluding remarks -- Epilogue: Our wings are melting: artificial intelligence and the enslavement of the human mind. |
| Summary |
Joseph P. Farrell, well known for his widely-discussed investigations on contemporary banks and ruling structures, co-writes this fascinating book regarding contemporary schooling with long-time New York state instructor Gary Lawrence. Both authors maintain that the future of American education stands in a tradition of social engineering, data mining, pseudo-psychology, and dumbing down classroom strategies. Says Farrell, "It it is our contention that the goal of Common Core, or rather, of its assessment process, is nothing less than a massive addition to the power of the surveillance state, to the privileged corporations destined to manage it, to the further drastic curtailment of our civil liberties, and to the eventual inhibition of any individual creativity, genius, responsibility, and any general or popular intellectual culture resulting from them. Our goal is to stimulate discussion of Common Core radical agenda, and its ultimate rejection. |
| Subject |
Common Core State Standards (Education)
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Education -- Standards -- United States.
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Education and state -- United States.
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Educational tests and measurements -- United States.
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EDUCATION -- Testing & Measurement.
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Common Core State Standards (Education) (OCoLC)fst01919343
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Educational tests and measurements. (OCoLC)fst00903660
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Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
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Education -- Standards. (OCoLC)fst00902789
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Added Author |
Lawrence, Gary (Instructor), author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Farrell, Joseph P., 1957- Rotten to the (common) core. Port Townsend, WA : Process, [2016] 9781934170649 193417064X (OCoLC)923554074 |
| ISBN |
9781934170670 (electronic bk.) |
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1934170674 (electronic bk.) |
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