title: The Story-Killers: A Common-Sense Case Against the Common Core
author: Terrence O. Moore
description: Terrence O. Moore is a teacher, education reformer, and writer. A former Marine, Moore received his Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh, where he wrote on the history of education during the Enlightenment. He was the founding principal of Ridgeview Classical Schools in Fort Collins, Colorado, whose high school twice ranked first in the state. Since 2008 he has taught history at Hillsdale College, where he is also the principal advisor of the Barney Charter School Initiative and is helping set up dozens of classical charter schools. Dr. Moore has written on the topics of school reform, liberal education, and traditional manhood for the Claremont Review of Books, Human Events, The Family in America, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of The Perfect Game, a novel about real boys growing up in Texas. He lives with his wife and four children in Northeast Indiana.
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  BAY OF KILLERS
  
  
  
  
  
  Paul Sinclair
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  © Paul Sinclair 2018
  
  
  
  
  
  Paul Sinclair has asserted his rights under the Copyright, Design and Patents
  Act, 1988, to be identified as the author of this work.
  
  
  
  
  
  First published in 2018 by Endeavour Media Ltd.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Forward](part0000_split_003.html#_Toc520362284)
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0000_split_004.html#_Toc520362285)
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0000_split_005.html#_Toc520362286)
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0000_split_006.html#_Toc520362287)
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0000_split_007.html#_Toc520362288)
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0000_split_008.html#_Toc520362289)
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0000_split_009.html#_Toc520362290)
  
  
  [Chapter 7](part0000_split_010.html#_Toc520362291)
  
  
  [Chapter 8](part0000_split_011.html#_Toc520362292)
  
  
  [Chapter 9](part0000_split_012.html#_Toc520362293)
  
  
  [Chapter 10](part0000_split_013.html#_Toc520362294)
  
  
  [Chapter 11](part0000_split_014.html#_Toc520362295)
  
  
  [Chapter 12](part