The Real USA - Common Core

Common Core is a US government financed initiative to unify study plans so that all public school students have similar and standardized English, literature, and math skills. However many educators criticize this initiative as not taking diverse local conditions, such as poverty, into account. The debate on education is also centered on cutbacks in public schooling and is playing out in this year's mid-term and local elections. Priscilla Huff reports from Washington. teleSUR