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What does it mean?
The entity providing the paycheck is the entity that gets to call the shots. That means, the feds will be telling those local teachers who “qualify” as master teachers, what to do and how to do it.
For those of you who have been under a rock, Common Core math (Obama-and-co.’s -approved math) is much different than traditional, time-tested math. Common Core math is fuzzy-styled, student-and group-work-centered and highly controversial math that pooh-poohs excellent traditions of teaching such as drilling math facts and actually showing students how to do algorithms. Common Core has students waste energy guessing and fumbling toward the formulas, often working in collective groups.
But it’s the math that Obama and Secretary Duncan believe in.
Secondly, Common Core science will be far different from traditional, empirically-based science. It will be politicized version of science that focuses on “green” education, “sustainability” and on “global,” rather than local, citizenship. It’s a globalist, anti-Constitution indoctrination that uses the smokescreen of “sustainability” as if that word defines real science, but it’s based not on widely recognized scientific truth but rather is based on control-and-politics based “green” science, Al Gore style.
Our American STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) teachers will teach that socialists’ version of these subjects to our children. It’s political indoctrination, absolutely.
Think it’s a conspiracy theory? Then fact-check me. Read Obama’s, Duncan’s, Sir Michael Barber’s, and the United Nations’ own words on education reform and see if it’s not all built on the foundation of “sustainability” indoctrination.
This is the reason Obama’s pushing STEM Master Teacher Corps and allocating taxes (or debts) for it; he wants to “transform” education according to the education chapter of the United Nations’ agenda for our century.
Fact-check here: http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/agenda21/res_agenda21_25.shtml and http://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/index.php?menu=218
Bill Gates: Common Core promoter, United Nations promoter, Unesco’s Constitution promoter.
And, for another article, this one from the Heritage Foundation, on the same subject:
Obama Proposes Federal Paychecks for Local Teachers
http://blog.heritage.org/2012/07/19/obama-proposes-federal-paychecks-for-local-teachers/
COMMON CORE 
As I suspected and feared. Great, in the districts where they have been trying to re-establish basic numeracy after the socialist nut-o-crats Long March through the leftovers of the “New Math” (they’re always trying to re-package that atrocity exhibition and will never fess up that is was failure) now they’re going to get this nonsense force-fed and everything they have worked to gain will be lost.
Oh well, they can’t stop KhanAcademy and the other net-based resources, a significant component of the youth will gain functional skills (which are inescapably individualized) and they will inevitably see the fraud that this is. I just wonder if that component will be big enough to counter the already-softened-up youngsters, who are so consumed with the blur of the instant messaging culture that there attention spans have been nearly eviscerated. This whole thing smells like a devious scheme to piggy-back onto this situation and cater to their impulse to have everything done for them. They’ve been doing this anyway in many of the major metro districts (like the ones in Atlanta, D.C., and elsewhere caught cheating on the NCLB tests) where “critical thinking” amounts to blaming white people/America/capitalism/take your pick for whatever they feel like.
You first FACT CHECK link is broken. I have been talking about these “Master Teachers” One thing you fail to mention is Hitler had MASTER TEACHERS too. If you compare what is happening to education in America with education under Nazi Germany the similarities are extremely frightening.
I have seen evidence of these zombies. It is horrible to see. It is our jobs as parents (if you are one) to speak up to them and shake their world.