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Category Academic Standards, Common Core, Education, White Papers

Date: Oct. 12, 2016

Authors: Anthony Esolen, Dan Guernsey, Jane Robbins, and Kevin Ryan

Preface authors: Harvard Law School Professor Mary Ann Glendon and former Boston Mayor Raymond L. Flynn

The workforce-preparation focus of the K-12 English and math standards known as Common Core puts them at odds with Catholic education, and the standards should not be adopted by parochial schools. In “After the Fall: Catholic Education Beyond the Common Core,” authors Anthony Esolen, Dan Guernsey, Jane Robbins, and Kevin Ryan argue that the national standards’ unrelenting focus on skills that transfer directly to the modern work world conflicts with Catholic schools’ academic, spiritual, and moral mission.