Short PaperMost teachers I spoke with agreed that the common core was rushed, without enough time and/or money to adequately prepare. The goal was noble: to make the United States a global leader in education. But the curriculum was basically just thrown into the teacher's hands. Testing the system in a few select school districts would have been a better way to gradually implement the new curriculum. John Dewey's progressive ideas on education influenced American educators, and the Common Core demonstrates that Dewey's philosophy still permeates the American school system. Dewey was in favor of “scholastic experimentation,” meaning that educators should continually reject old methods in favor of new ones. The Common Core can be seen as this type of experimentation, leading some educators to complain that “we are a nation of guinea pigs.” Dewey also advocated the need for a standardized curriculum to prevent one student from becoming superior to others and to train all students “for leadership and obedience.” Dewey envisioned a workforce filled with people with “politically and socially correct attitudes” who would respond to orders without asking questions. But will it also produce a workforce of men and women capable of independent analysis and creative problem solving? As a student who was homeschooled for nearly all of my middle school years, I was particularly interested in how Common Core would impact homeschooling. For now, the common core applies only to the 45 states that have adopted it. Perhaps the most immediate threat to homeschool and private school students is the expansion of longitudinal databases at the state level. The designers of the new systems intend to devote themselves entirely to home education and private schools... middle of paper... a future too distant will need workers who can think critically, are problem solvers, communicators and collaborators. ReferencesDouglas County Republican Party, RNC Resolution v. Common Core, item 2 (Colo.2014).Guisbond, L., Neill, M., & Schaeffer, B. (2014). NCLB's Lost Decade of Educational Progress: What Can We Learn from This Policy Failure? FairTest, 88(1), 2-9. Ravitch, D. (2014, February 1). Will the Common Core impact home and private schools? Retrieved April 13, 2014, from Common Core Issues website: http://www.hslda.org/commoncore/Topic7.aspx.Spring, J. (2014). The American School A Global Context: From the Puritans to the Obama Administration (9th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.Spring, J. and Roberts, UK (2013). The American school 1642-1996 (vol. 12).