Big Government and Big Business Colluded to Foist Common Core on America

The Encounter Books Podcast

Joy Pullmann, managing editor at The Federalist, and an education research fellow at the Heartland Institute, sits down with ChangeUp Media's Ben Weingarten for Encounter Books to discuss her new book "The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids." During the interview, Joy and Ben discuss a variety of topics including how America transitioned from an education system that had produced knowledgeable citizens with basic skills to Common Core, why Common Core is a natural extension of the administrative state, how big business and big government colluded to foist Common Core on the American people, the problems Common Core poses in math and the social sciences and much more. Read ' The Education Invasion': tinyurl.com/mmj3n9t. 'Freeway' by Kurt Vile is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (aka Music Sharing) 3.0 International License. Download 'Freeway' here: tinyurl.com/p4tkyfb