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Now welcome to the award winning best of a left podcast with Cook's Day from the PBS

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the Young Turks and Counters Ben.

A sting for the Common Core Learning Standards in US Public Schools began earlier this month,

and just as a rebellion is brewing against the Common Core, there are now protests building

against the National Tests associated with them.

Reports of students refusing to take the tests are coming in daily, and if those numbers

keep building, it could endanger the goals of the standards themselves.

Our special correspondent for Education John Merrow has the story from New Jersey.

Something big is happening in New Jersey, and it's being broadcast on YouTube.

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In Newark, high school students occupy the superintendent's office for three days.

One of their issues, the Common Core Test.

This is a pretty big deal of taking back our district.

The politicians actually get very nervous when they see how many people are against one thing.

They have money power, they have political power, but we have people power.

It's happening in Montclair, where a protest group released this video.

We're fighting back.

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