{"id":20885,"date":"2013-12-06T12:19:05","date_gmt":"2013-12-06T17:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=20885"},"modified":"2013-12-10T16:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T21:45:31","slug":"documentary-takes-on-common-core-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/12\/06\/documentary-takes-on-common-core-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary Takes On Common Core Standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u168bk2lntI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Don_LaFontaine\">In a world<\/a> of education policies run amok&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not the tagline for a new documentary about the Common Core State Standards, but it could be based on a trailer posted online.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary, &#8220;Building The Machine,&#8221; is scheduled for a February release and features many prominent critics. That includes Sandra Stotsky and Ze&#8217;ev Wurman, who testified at a<a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2013\/10\/16\/supporters-opponents-of-floridas-common-education-standards-have-their-say-in-tampa\/\"> series of Florida public meetings on the standards<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n<p>The trailer also features footage of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who is a prominent Common Core advocate.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The movie is a project of <a href=\"http:\/\/distantmoonmedia.com\/\">Distant Moon Media Group<\/a>, which has produced a series on <a href=\"http:\/\/distantmoonmedia.com\/?page_id=19\">Constitutional literacy<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/distantmoonmedia.com\/?page_id=19\">response to the 2012 election<\/a> for Heritage Action for America.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is one of 45 states which has fully adopted the math, English and literacy standards. The standards outline what students should know at the end of each grade.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/tag\/common-core\/\">all of StateImpact Florida&#8217;s Common Core coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a world of education policies run amok&#8230; That&#8217;s not the tagline for a new documentary about the Common Core State Standards, but it could be based on a trailer posted online. The documentary, &#8220;Building The Machine,&#8221; is scheduled for a February release and features many prominent critics. That includes Sandra Stotsky and Ze&#8217;ev Wurman, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[1157,819,1026],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20885"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20916,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20885\/revisions\/20916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}