I’m repeating a quote here, a quote that seems applicable to many areas of education today:

“Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.”
― Thomas Sowell

Eduhonesty: So far, this expresses my view of the Common Core perfectly.

P.S. Sowell is an African-American economist who has authored of dozens of books. When I left off, he was a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He is absolutely out of fashion today. I nonetheless recommend looking up his work. Decide for yourself reader, after looking at the material available. Here is a place to start: https://lawliberty.org/encountering-thomas-sowell/