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Why Conservatives Should Stop Opposing the Common Core (Common Core: Yea) by Sol Stern In the past few decades as progressives gained influence in universities and schools of education the idea of a coherent, content-rich curriculum has been erased from Americas classrooms. Now, for all its faults, the Common Core State Standards represent the best opportunity we have to restore that structure in our schools. In this Broadside, Sol Stern shows how both sides of the education spectrum have misrepresented the Common Core. The left regards the standards as a threat to their ideological hegemony, while conservative pundits lack a true understanding of what they actually provide. Americans should see the Common Core as an opening to restore academic content to the nations schools and reverse the influence of educational progressivism in our classrooms. Read more