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Stephen Colbert Takes On Common Core Math, and We've Never Laughed Harder!

Apr 10 2014 - 10:11am

There's been no shortage of criticism of the Common Core academic standards since they were rolled out three years ago. But the anti-Common Core movement's recent momentum may have just received a significant boost thanks to Stephen Colbert [1]. Hot off the heels of a number line math problem that went viral [2] after an engineer couldn't complete his second-grade son's homework, the Colbert Report host shed some satirical light on the national math program, and we don't think we've ever laughed harder (just ask our colleagues; they could hear us across the room). Let's just hope Colbert keeps it up when he has an even larger audience after he takes over for David Letterman [3] next year.


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