A Plea for Catholic Schools to Ignore New Guidelines

A group of Roman Catholic scholars has called on Catholic schools to ignore the new educational standards known as the Common Core, a set of guidelines on what students should know and be able to do from kindergarten through 12th grade, opening a front with parallels to the fight over using the guidelines in public schools. In a letter to the nation’s bishops last month, the group, including more than 100 professors and university administrators, argued that the Common Core would actually

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