‘Building the Machine’: The New Common Core Documentary
The nonprofit Home School Legal Defense Association is out with a short documentary about the development of the Common Core educational standards.
The nearly 40-minute “Building the Machine” traces the history of Common Core, particularly the secrecy in which the standards were developed. Forty-four states, as well as the District of Columbia, have adopted the Common Core State Standards Initiative that advocates say prepares students for achievement in life, and that detractors say amounts to a national curriculum because of the federal grants tied to its adoption....