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Textbook Executive Loves Common Core ‘Rebrands’: ‘I Can Sell a Sh** Ton of Training Around Whatever You Call It’

In the second Common Core undercover video by Project Veritas, an account executive at textbook publisher Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt demonstrates why Common Core “rebrands,” whereby states claim to “repeal” the Common Core standards to appease citizens, but then simply replace them with the same or very similar standards with a local flavor name, are very profitable for publishers.

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GOP Candidates Get it Wrong on China When Bashing Trump on Trade

Notably, Trump’s campaign website prominently states that a Trump administration would declare China a “currency manipulator” on day one in office. This is logical and commendable— and it’s exactly what Mitt Romney vowed in 2012. It also reflects the earnest promises that Barack Obama made in April 2008 at a forum held by the United Steelworkers union. (Yes, Obama promised tough action on China’s currency during the 2008 campaign. But he never followed through.)