Common core is specifically designed to break the critical thinking skills of children and teach them to use collectivist thought.
Any specific examples? All I know about is common core science and I can tell you that it is the only thing that has brought critical thinking into public science education. "Next generation science standards" are 100% designed around science practices which are all about critical thinking.
I imagine the same sort of thinking can be applied to common core standards in other disciplines. All I can think of are the math examples that force students to do mental math instead of memorizing multiples and factors.
Oh man. I am going to answer this question as if you have the capacity to understand basic psychology and how critical thinking works even thought you have repeatedly demonstrated you don't. At least this way some interested 3rd party can get use from it. Who knows, maybe you will bother to actually read some thing too.
In short, common core actively punishes critical thought and logic, and rewards substituting basic realities with a substituted reality as long as they can "explain how they got there". In short this is postmodernism as applied to math and other STEM fields. The right answer is subjective, it doesn't matter if it follows the rules of math, if you can find some way to justify it, it is reality. In short this is just conditioning children to reject what they know to be reality in favor of a collectively decided reality, and that they need some one externally to tell them what truth is in stead of deducing that for themselves using logic. Now when the child, as an adult reaches a point of cognitive dissonance, they will be already conveniently pre-conditioned to dismiss it on the basis of any plausible explanation! How convenient!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delphi_methodhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilaSvC9PGKkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhdvRx_lmkgBTW if you don't like my answer I don't give a shit. I don't care if you believe me or not. I showed you the door, you walk thru it. Or don't. I have no interest in debating psychology with some one who thinks Communism is great. You simply don't have the basic tools to understand how your own brain functions well enough to understand any of this, you know like logic, critical thought, or the understanding the The Olive Garden "Never Ending Soup Bowl" is not really never ending.
Why do you have to insult people who disagree with you? Why does a different world view than your indicate brain malfunction? Do you think the intellectual world should be an echo chamber?
I am a Scientist who teaches and also have a graduate certificate in educational psychology so if you have no interest in debate, then that is your loss. Or maybe, you subscribe to some notion that all of academia is communist propaganda which enables you to completely dismiss my masters degree in science education and career as a science educator.
As for the bolded section of the quote---- Traditional education never rewarded critical thought and was put in place by the government to mold people into factory machinery. Modern education is becoming just the opposite. In Science, we reward critical thinking and in doing so, the right answer is not always the emphasis. It is always about process and developing the student's abililty to "deduce the answer for themselves" as you have stated. There are even exercises where students use dimensional analysis to derive equations for variables that do not exist. Some see that and say "o lord they are teaching kids fictional science". We are preparing students to solve problems that do not exist yet.
Common core involves broad sets of standards that can be taught in many ways. Its far from some sort of monolithic test-based mandate.
The video you sent and its comment section reminded me of the rainbowland scene from "the campaign"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM9uFaGGVwkJust because Mao's system led to what is commonly understood as the greatest educational effort in human history, doesn't mean every educational effort is setting up for a Maoist government rule. This is like saying anyone who uses night vision is a nazi because the nazis developed night vision. Talk about logic.