At the GE Foundation’s Summer Business and Education Summit in Orlando, 150 business executives heard former Florida Governor Jeb Bush strongly endorse the Common Core State Standards. He predicted that when they are fully implemented, everyone would see what a disaster American education is. This, one assumes, will facilitate his agenda of getting rid of public education and replacing it with vouchers, charter schools, for-profit charter schools, for-profit online education, and anything else that fertile entrepreneurs can dream up. Bush promised there would be a rude awakening, which clearly made him happy.
As you read this account, you see FUD playing out right before your very eyes.
Meanwhile the business executives, as usual, complained that they can never fill any of the millions of jobs they have available because they can’t find skilled workers. So, of course, they outsource those jobs to China and India where they can find skilled workers willing to work for far less than American workers.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Aren’t these Republicans following the education reform blueprint of Obama and Duncan? So which group is ultimately responsible for the Common Core? Jeb Bush or this administration? The “ed reformer” group contains many Democrats: Bill Gates, Rahm Emanuel, Michelle Rhee.
This is a bipartisan takeover of education but strangely, I don’t see the calling out of progressive Democrats. Why not? Common Core is an integral part of Race to the Top which has Obama’s fingerprints all over it. It seems to me this is a Democratic Party mandate promoted from the party currently in power.
I am hopeful that Obama’s legacy of RTTT/common core/longitudinal data system educational “reform” will be remembered as fondly as GW Bush’s folly of NCLB.
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Quite right. It is bipartisan folly.
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If I may amend your statement! “. . . they can never fill any of the millions of jobs they have available because they can’t find skilled workers WHO ARE WILLING TO WORK FOR SLAVE WAGES WITH NO BENEFITS FOR 14 HOURS A DAY WITHOUT OVERTIME AND IN HORRIFIC WORKING CONDITIONS.”
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If there are millions of jobs going unfilled, then why are my two “smart as whips” well-and college-educated, energetic, fully career-ready adult children working part-time jobs just to get by?
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They say this to blame teachers and schools for the economy
Diane
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Because the teachers failed to do their jobs, of course.
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I find it rather ironic that the article talks about how much our public schools suck, then makes a error like this: “He said, ‘My guess is there’s going to be a lot of people running for cover and **their** going to be running fast.'”
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