Common Core sounds like Left wing propaganda to me......
A biography of Barack Obama that is being used in Dupo, Illinois, claims that white people rejected Barack Obama because of his race, the Illinois Review said Thursday.
According to the Review, the book, simply titled "Barack Obama," supplements the school's Common Core curriculum, and "blames television for the negative behaviors the first African-American president picked up as a teen."
Another passage claims that white voters would never vote for a black president. The Washington Post, however, says that Obama received 39 percent of the white vote in 2012, the same percentage Bill Clinton received in 1992. Obama also received 43 percent of the white vote in 2008.
Nevertheless, the book leaves the impression that the opposite took place.
"But some people said Americans weren't ready for that much change. Sure Barack was a nice fellow, they said. But white voters would never vote for a black president. Other angry voices were raised. Barack's former pastor called the country a failure. God would damn the United States for mistreating its black citizens, he said," the book says.
Parents were outraged when fourth-grade students at Bluffview Elementary were told the book would be tested for grades.
A Facebook group called "Moms against Duncan (MAD)" brought attention to the book the Review added. The group formed as a result of derogatory comments recently made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan against "white suburban moms" and their resistance to Common Core standards.
"Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has insulted the Moms of America and our children! This MAD group is intended to be a gathering place where America's Moms can show him that he picked the WRONG group to mess with!" the group says.
Duncan has since maintained that while his wording was "clumsy," his message was "very, very simple."
"When you raise standards that’s a challenging thing…What’s happened historically is far too many states have dummied downed standards. We were lying to families and children…Many states around this country doing very hard work of raising standards, now, it’s the right thing, but we have to better communicate that to parents. That was the message,” he told MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.
The Review said the book was written by Jane Sutcliffe, published by Lerner and is part of Scholastic's "Reading Counts" program acceptable to the controversial Common Core curriculum standard.
An excerpt of the book can be seen here.
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- http://www.examiner.com/article/common-core-book-claims-white-voters-rejected-obama-due-to-race
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