Fortunately, I am on Angie Sullivan’s email list, which has scores of recipients. Most seem to be teachers, legislators, and journalists in Nevada. Angie keeps all of us up-to-date with education events in Nevada. We learned first from Angie that the public schools in Nevada are poorly funded. In fact, the Education Law Center says that Nevada has one of the most inequitable funding formulas in the nation. Angie also let me know about the Governor and Legislature’s grant of $1.3 billion in tax incentives to Tesla to build a battery factory in Nevada. And now she reports on an effort to portray Nevada as the one place in the nation where there is no controversy about the Common Core. Angie takes issue with that claim. She is a teacher.
Here is what a reformer says about common core in Nevada.
Here is what a Nevadan says about common core.
Angie Sullivan comments:
“Echo Chambers are dangerous things unless you earn money making them. I commented on the first article but the comments disappeared.
“Ask a teacher in a safe place what they really think – if you can handle the truth.”
Diane Ravitch's blog 
““Echo Chambers are dangerous things unless you earn money making them…”
YES! When a group (Tribe) only talks to themselves, (Echo Chamber/Sing to the Choir)
they reinforce each others view of the world. If this goes on long enough, their view can
become quite distorted AND they don’t know it, OR, at a dim level they might sense THEY
are victims of their propaganda, but as long as they ignore it, they can rationalize their
complicity, until self congratulatory tribalism, or identity politics, is all they have to offer
to keep the “Demons” at bay…
I think Uncle Albert was right about “Levels of Thinking” (Consciousness)
“We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them”
that post by Pondiscio went up at Fordham Institute about 2 weeks ago; I left about 20 comments. They were not deleted. All the posts I write/comments at the Education Next (the newsletter site for Fordham Institute) are automatically deleted. Pondiscio had an earlier article where he bashed Calkins and her work in teaching literacy/writing etc. Pondiscio wrote a comment back to me and accused me of ad hominem attacks but I think that I am usually specific about curriculum even though I most frequently disagree with Pondiscio. There are a few comments at the site that are a day or two old so it would be probably worth the time to go and enter a comment….. or watch Fordham Institute because they will have another and another and another to attack public schools (and teachers in particular).