Ted Asregadoo speaks to Truthout’s assistant editor and reporter, Candice Bernd, about the Common Core State Standards Initiative that’s being implemented in 45 states in the US, and how the influence of for-profit corporations masks one of the most pressing problems in education: poverty.
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