that the kids who learn by these standards become proscience, antireligion hostile to american culture. i am sure is you is have seen is and heard these things what do you make of those criticisms in. >> i think at the core of the common core we are asking the common core standards are asking students to critically think and look at the world. with a credit cam lenes, and there's a lot of opportunities to for students to think in the ways that -- to just create their own opinions and look in the world in a very thoughtful way, and what is happening, though, is that they are not being able to assessed in the way in a critical way, so if students are trying to have -- are reading about religion or reading about science, or reading about history, and they want to pat these together, the common core allowed that, because it is not dictating what you are supposed to be seeing, but what is is happened is is when you take a test. are narrowly focusing them i think one thing that the common core is lacking is this idea of discounting students do what -- >> so much a part of the experience is h