One of the lead drafters of the Common Core national math standards, Jason Zimba, admitted under questioning in 2010 that the math standards were not designed to help students succeed

“the colleges their parents aspire to.” Instead, he said, the standards were designed to prepare students only for “nonselective colleges” – i.e., community colleges. But what happens when these Common Core-“educated” students end up in four-year universities? Will their lack of academic preparation expose Common Core for the mediocrity it is and bring down the whole rotten structure? 

The Obama administration has tried to forestall this result with the incentives in the Race to the Top program and the illegal No Child Left Behind waiver scheme, both of which pressure colleges and universities to accept these unprepared students and place them in credit-bearing courses. But the administration is now working harder to disguise the inevitable, woeful effects of Common Core. The next round of the deception game seems to be discouraging students from attending four-year universities, where their academic shortcomings would be more glaring. 


Last week President Obama announced with great fanfare that federal taxpayers should pick up the tab for students to attend two years of community college. Much discussion has ensued about the economic and philosophical problems inherent in borrowing more billions from China to pay tuition. But seen through the wider lens of the Common Core scheme, this ploy makes perfect sense. What better way to mask the unpreparedness of students than to steer them away from the more demanding arena of a four-year university? 

And if the “free community college” lure doesn’t work, try this: Change the tax laws so that parents are penalized financially for saving for college. Millions of middle-class parents now contribute to “529” plans, through which they can save and later withdraw money tax-free as long as it’s used for college tuition and expenses. The President’s new budget proposes snatching that safe harbor from parents and making them pay taxes on their 529 savings upon withdrawal, regardless of what the money is used for. 

Is this beginning to make free community college look a little better? 
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