Did duplicity about Common Core’s standards help lead to national incivility and voter alienation?

The current degradation of the presidential campaign (it seems to be about who can better smear the other major candidate) and the purported alienation of many voters may have begun in 2009/2010 with the duplicitous campaign to trick the public into buying an empty set of K-12 skills described as "rigorous" standards, supposedly aimed at developing "deeper understanding" and "critical thinking skills." By now it is clear that this multi-tentacled project was intended to centralize education poli

The current degradation of the presidential campaign (it seems to be about who can better smear the other major candidate) and the purported alienation of many voters may have begun in 2009/2010 with the duplicitous campaign to trick the public into buying an empty set of K-12 skills described as "rigorous" standards, supposedly aimed at developing "deeper understanding" and "critical thinking skills." By now it is clear that this multi-tentacled project was intended to centralize education poli…