Drilling through the core : why Common Core is bad for American education / edited and with an introduction by Peter W. Wood.

How Common Core's ELA standards place college readiness at risk / Mark Bauerlein and Sandra Stotsky -- The fate of American history in a Common Core-based curriculum / Ralph Ketcham, Anders Lewis, and Sandra Stotsky -- The fate of poetry in a curriculum for the proletariat / Anthony Esolen, Jamie Highfill, and Sandra Stotsky -- Common Core's mathematics standards still don't make the grade / Ze'ev Wurman -- Lowering the bar: how Common Core math fails to prepare high school students for STEM / R. James Migram and Sandra Stotsky -- The revenge of K-12: how Common Core and new SAT lower college standards in the U.S. / Richard P. Phelps and R. James Milgram -- The road to a national curriculum: the legal aspects of the Common Core standards, race to the top, and conditional waivers / Robert S. Eitel and Kent D. Talbert, with Williamson S. Evers -- National cost of aligning states and localities to the Common Core standards / AccountabilityWorks.