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RELATED:<\/strong> Democrats Persecute Homeschooling Parents<\/a><\/p>\n Michael Dorstewitz<\/strong> An ordinary mother of three eviscerated Common Core state standards<\/strong> in her powerful four-minute testimony before the Arkansas Board of Education Monday.<\/p>\n The testimony comes in the wake of major protests against the uniform guidelines. The mom, a member of Arkansas Against Common Core<\/a>, and identified as Karen Lamoreaux<\/strong>, testified that rather than \u201ca set of rigorous, college-ready international benchmark standards\u201d that the Common Core initiative was touted to be, it tends to dumb down math solutions by, ironically, overcomplicating them.<\/p>\n As an example, she gave the board a simple fourth-grade division problem, which Common Core requires students to use 108 steps to solve.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n This article was posted: Thursday, December 19, 2013 at 9:18 am<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <!– this is where we need to show the related articles <\/p>\n
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