Short Article Most teachers I spoke with agreed that Common Core was rushed, with not enough time and/or money to adequately prepare. The goal was noble: to make the United States a world leader in education. But the program was essentially left in the hands of teachers. Testing the system in a few select school districts would have been a better way to gradually implement the new program. John Dewey's progressive thoughts on education have influenced American educators and the Common Core proves that Dewey's philosophy is still penetrating the American school system. Dewey favored “school experimentation,” meaning that educators should continually reject old methods in favor of new ones. Common Core can be seen as this type of experiment, leaving some educators to complain that “we are a nation of guinea pigs.” Dewey also advocated for a standardized curriculum to prevent any one student from becoming superior to others and to train all students "for leadership as well as obedience." Dewey envisioned a workforce filled with people with “politically and socially correct attitudes” who would respond to orders without question. But will it also produce a workforce of men and women who can independently analyze and creatively solve problems? As a student who was homeschooled for almost all of my middle school years, I was particularly interested in how Common Core would affect homeschooling. For the moment, the common core only applies to the 45 states which have adopted it. Perhaps the most immediate threat to private and home school students is the expansion of statewide longitudinal databases. The designers of the new systems are fully intended for study at home and in private schools ... middle of paper ...... too distant future will need workers who can think critically, solve problems , communicate and collaborators. References Republican Party of Douglas County, RNC Resolution against Common Core, p. 2 (Colo.2014).Guisbond, L., Neill, M. and Schaeffer, B. (2014). NCLB's lost decade for educational progress: What can we learn from this policy failure? FairTest, 88(1), 2-9.Ravitch, D. (February 1, 2014). Will Common Core have an impact on homeschools 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, United Kingdom (2013). The American School 1642-1996 (Vol. 12).