Moms winning the Common Core war – Stephanie Simon – POLITICO.com

Moms winning the Common Core war – Stephanie Simon – POLITICO.com.

At best Common Core is a very misguided program based on the erroneous assumption that anything good will come out of teaching to very flawed standard tests.

At worst it is a crass and overt scheme to sell specific textbooks to struggling school districts and funnel money away from schools in less affluent areas.

Here’s What Israel’s Far-Right Is Saying: “Our Soldiers Are The Only Innocents In Gaza”

Here’s What Israel’s Far-Right Is Saying: “Our Soldiers Are The Only Innocents In Gaza” .

On Thursday, Feiglin declared on his Facebook page, “Our soldiers are the only innocents in Gaza. Under no circumstances should they be killed because of false morality that prefers to protect enemy civilians. One hair on the head of an Israeli soldier is more precious than the entire Gazan populace, which elected the Hamas and supports and encourages anyone who murders Israelis.”

There aren’t enough words to describe how nasty and gross and just downright evil this way of thinking is but I’ll start with three: racist, murderous, pig.