Common Core Quotes

• My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Math, Thanks

  "Give parents some choice! Our kids' education should not be controlled by a monopoly" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2014.

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• It is rare in a working environment that someone says, ‘Johnson, I need a market analysis by Friday, but before that, I need a compelling account of your childhood.'

  David Coleman

  Friday, Childhood, Needs

  "Inside the Mammoth Backlash to Common Core" by Tim Murphy, www.motherjones.com. September 2014.

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• Common Core is a big win for education.

  Bill Gates

  Winning, Common, Bigs

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• There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be the new minimum in classrooms.

  Jeb Bush

  Needs, Levels, Common

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• The Common Core State Standards Initiative is an important step forward in ensuring that the United States remains competitive in the global economy. Career technical education (CTE) shares the Initiative s goal that all students must be college and career ready. CTE programs that incorporate the Common Core Standards will ensure students have the academic and technical knowledge and skills to be successful in the 21st century workplace.

  Kimberlee Green

  Educational, Successful, College

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• I do not support Common Core because there is absolutely no evidence that a big, centralized bureaucracy makes anything better. In fact, there is a lot of evidence to the contrary.

  Carly Fiorina

  Support, Facts, Common

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be acknowledged, that a secure basis will be attained for tackling interdisciplinary problems, and that the sciences will be mobilized within a higher unity of vocabulary, thought and orientation, in which they will be able to make their quite significant contribution to the solution of fundamental problems.

  Bernard Lonergan

  Vocabulary, Unity, Special

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• It's a Tenth Amendment issue. If you want Washington, if you want to implement their standards, that's your call... We certainly had higher standards than Common Core, so it was a very easy decision for Texans, myself and the legislature included, to basically say we still believe that Texans know how to best run Texas.

  Rick Perry

  Education, Running, Believe

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• You have got to have two things in education reform. You have got to have some flexibility, so people can figure out what to do. But you also have to have accountable, basically what the Common Core standards were, some sort of set of national standards, so we can measure.

  David Brooks

  Two, People, Reform

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is certainly the intention of efforts like the Common Core to raise education standards and make sure that every student masters advanced math concepts - algebra, geometry, statistics and probability.

  Anya Kamenetz

  Math, Effort, Statistics

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• We have a lot of rhetoric today about "high rigor" and you often hear terms like that thrown about when discussing the Common Core. But the American education system historically has not embraced intellectual seriousness.

  Dana Goldstein

  Intellectual, Today, Common

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• State Farm is pleased to support the Common Core State Standards Initiative. State by State adoption of these standards is an important step towards maintaining our country s competitive edge. With a skilled and prepared workforce, the business community will be better prepared to face the challenges of the international marketplace.

  Edward B. Rust, Jr.

  Country, Educational, Adoption

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• There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

  Randy Hultgren

  Common, Aspect, Core

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• Based on my own experiences, I made sure, and I'm proud of this, that the Common Core curriculum is hard on plagiarizers.

  Joe Biden

  Curriculum, Proud, Common

  Interview with Chris Wallac, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2015.

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• I think Common Core is a disaster. That doesn't mean there can't be a little tentacle left of the Department of Education, like 5 percent, just in terms of local coordination, perhaps.

  Donald Trump

  Mean, Thinking, Littles

  Source: townhall.com

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• Every Republican will tell you they are for school choice, shrinking government, cutting the government workforce and getting rid of Common Core. But talk is cheap. Talk is just talk. I haven't just talked about these things. I've actually done these things.

  Bobby Jindal

  School, Cutting, Government

  "Bobby Jindal opens up about his 2016 presidential run". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 3, 2015.

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• So many people think that social studies and weird lessons in social studies, teaching kids in America are bad, is it the result of Common Core? And it's not. It's not. Common Core does not deal with social studies. It's basically writing and math.

  Megyn Kelly

  Teaching, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Shortly after her nomination was announced,[Betsy] DeVos tweeted, almost as if she had forgotten something important to say. And she said, I am not a supporter of the Common Core. Sandy Kress predicts that debate will die down soon enough.

  Claudio Sanchez

  Soon Enough, Important, Nominations

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm not cutting services. But I'm cutting spending. But I may cut Department of Education. I believe common core is a very bad thing. I believe that we should be lo - you know, educating our children from Iowa, from New Hampshire, from South Carolina, from California, from New York. I think that it should be local education.

  Donald Trump

  New York, Children, Believe

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• A lot of Republican candidate will tell you they'll protect innocent human life and they'll hunt down ISIS and get rid of Common Core, but we're actually doing things in our state. We need a doer, not a talker.

  Bobby Jindal

  Isis, Needs, Doers

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 24, 2015.

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• Common Core has been eliminated in New Jersey.

  Chris Christie

  Jersey, Common, Has Beens

  Chris Christie at the 6th GOP debate in North Charleston, South Carolina, www.washingtonpost.com. January 14, 2016.

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• Here's the problem with Common Core. The Department of Education, like every federal agency, will never be satisfied. They will not stop with it being a suggestion. They will turn it into a mandate.In fact, what they will begin to say to local communities is, you will not get federal money unless do you things the way we want you to do it. And they will use Common Core or any other requirements that exists nationally to force it down the throats of our people in our states.

  Marco Rubio

  Agency, People, Community

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• A lot of conservatives, a big part of the Republican base don't like his position on common core, don't like his position on immigration.

  Jeb Bush

  Immigration, Common, Republican

  "Sony caves on free speech; Bill Cosby's team rips CNN". "MediaBuzz" with Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. December 21, 2014.

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• Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

  David Harsanyi

  Children, Math, Thinking

  "No, Arne Duncan, ‘White Suburban Moms’ Aren’t The Problem. (But you might be)". thefederalist.com. November 19, 2013.

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• I think we'll have a bigger conversation first within the Republican Party, then with the American people about what's the proper role of the federal government, i do hope that Common Core will be one more, one more reason for us to have this bigger debate, this bigger conversation about the proper role of the federal government in local education.

  Bobby Jindal

  Education, Party, Thinking

  "Common Core fight a larger battle over the size of government" by Jeremy Diamond, www.cnn.com. February 9, 2015.

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