Is Common Core The New Fluoridation Or The New Asbestos?

[Valin]

Hugh Hewitt:

Hugh Hewitt

8/3/13

 

The last two transcripts of this series of interviews are now posted at the Transcripts page, one with Patricia Levesque, who is the CEO of the Foundation for Excellence in Education, and one with Emmett McGroarty, an opponent of the Common Core, who is with the American Principles Project.

 

Interviews earlier in the week on the subject were with former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and current Florida Senator Marco Rubio, as well as with Washington Post education writer Jay Mathews and former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, both of whom can fairly be described as neither opponents nor proponents. As noted, those five interviews are also at the Transcripts page.

 

Ten conclusions, based on these interviews and a ton of email and yet another round of unexpected Common Core questions at an unrelated event on another topic with Dennis Prager in Sacramento on Thursday night:

 

(Snip)

[Pepper]

Hewitt could have stopped with the Fluoridation analogy seeing as how a kid can have too much fluoride or not enough