Sandra Stotsky Review: New Book Tells Some of the Story of How Common Core Infiltrated Education, Took Over, and Lowered Standards

Bill Gates somehow managed to get the U.S. Department of Education not only to buy into Common Core but also foist it on local school districts all over the land — in less than five years. Joyce Pullman's book The Education Invasion:  How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids "describes how the Gates Foundation promoted and continues to promote one extremely wealthy couple's uninformed, unsupported, and unsupportable ideas on education for other people's children, even while t

Bill Gates somehow managed to get the U.S. Department of Education not only to buy into Common Core but also foist it on local school districts all over the land — in less than five years. Joyce Pullman's book The Education Invasion:  How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids "describes how the Gates Foundation promoted and continues to promote one extremely wealthy couple's uninformed, unsupported, and unsupportable ideas on education for other people's children, even while t…