Category File
Education
2 documented theories filed under this subject.
- Standard Education Common CoreThe Standard Education Common Core theory claimed that the Common Core State Standards were not merely academic benchmarks in English language arts and mathematics, but a system designed to flatten intuition, weaken inner life, and interrupt children’s spirituality through standardized learning structures. In this reading, educational uniformity was interpreted as spiritual containment.
- The Standard Education DummyingThis theory claimed that American school curricula in the 1930s were intentionally simplified, standardized, and vocationalized in order to produce obedient workers rather than informed citizens. In its strongest form, the allegation held that New Deal-era educational policy and progressive curricular reform were being used to lower intellectual expectations and channel children into docile labor roles suited to an increasingly managed society. The historical basis beneath the theory is real but complex: the interwar and Depression-era school system did emphasize efficiency, standardization, vocational adjustment, and broader access, while critics of “social efficiency” education argued that such approaches could subordinate individual intellectual development to social management. The stronger claim of a coordinated secret plot belongs to conspiracy language rather than to the established history of 1930s schooling.