Don't believe conservatives' criticisms of Common Core? How about this from a math professor at Cal-Berkeley?

◼ Berkeley prof: Common Core math basically a lot of drawing pictures - CAINTV.COM

...It gets your attention, as it should, when a professor from Cal-Berkeley denounces Common Core as a major step backward in the area of math education. And that's just what happens this morning in the Wall Street Journal, where math professor Marina Ratner relates what she discovered about Common Core from observing what they're teaching her grandson.

Does drawing a picture to demonstrate 2/3 divided by 3/4 sound like a good way of learning the material to you? If not, then you have an ally at UC-Berkeley...

It's important when we look at the problems with Common Core not to get caught up in some of the fiction about how it came about. To listen to some people, you'd think Barack Obama sat down and personally wrote the curriculum. He didn't, but when you realize what Common Core really is, and where it really came from, it's no less an indictment of the U.S. education establishment and those who support it....