Mercedes Schneider wrote a book about the origins of the Common Core and probably knows more about it than almost anyone but David Coleman, its celebrated architect.
In this post, she reports on her search for Coleman’s group called Student Achievement Partners, which won millions to write the standards.
Coleman has gone on to lead the College Board, which is now embroiled in controversy because of Coleman’s effort to redesign the SAT. He is paid $750,000. A good gig.
Schneider will watch to see what happens to CCSS, PARCC, SBAC, and the rest of it in the Trump era. Trump made many pledges to get rid of the Common Core: “Believe me!” He said. And he appointed a Common Core adherent to run the US Department of Ed.
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As with ll “reforms” the Core is dead because such phony reforms vanish after wasting teacher’s time and much $$$, We need to start over-See Red Queen-Human Development Centers (http://redqueen.me)
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The infamous David Coleman clip:
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I don’t believe Common Core supporters ever really believed in it…other than as a vehicle to implement all their other policies.
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If I may adjust your thought a little: “. . . other than as a vehicle to implement all their other policies AND GARNER AS MUCH FUNDING AS POSSIBLE”.
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Common Core was a package deal: standards, tests, professional development, college admission exams, classroom materials. The goal of it all was to make the “passing grade” so high that most students would fail, thus opening schools to privatization and giving a boost to the education industry.
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That and gold mining — mining for data gold.
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Excellent article by, oh no, a real public school classroom teacher!!!
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Classroom teachers weighing in on education?
What’s next? Rocket scientists designing rockets?
Better to let the think-tank wankers make the decisions — about education and rockets.
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Think tank wankers.
Gotta love that one!
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If this was written by a public school classroom teacher, that person should not be in the classroom.
Public classroom teachers know that school choice is simply a way to end public education. The author is a right wing tool.
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I believe you may want to go and read what Mercedes has been saying for years. https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/
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Mercedes is a tool
A monkey wrench.
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SomeDam Poet,
Don’t go all Haiku on us.
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The authors of the common Core
Are quiet as a mouse
Cuz Common Core is hip no more
And
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Cuz Common Core is hip no more
Beloved as a louse
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Just because they’re quiet as a mouse doesn’t mean they’ve left the house. I hate these mices to pieces.
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Mercedes’ post points up the difference between educational research– a body of continuing scholarship that informs the evolution of pedagogy– and the education business. The latter, like many businesses, depends on the regular output of products. Each has its development-marketing-sales cycle. As with vegetables, harvest season gets a lot of attention, but seeds for other produce have already taken root for a future harvest. (Personalized learning, anybody?)
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It is my sense that ANY education policy promoted by fed or state govt is going to be shaped, quite dominantly, by private business interests. That is how govt rolls in our current era. Policies promoting the public good are measured against the for-profit business model, found wanting, tweaked & tortured into legislation which undermines the premise. That doesn’t mean we accept it and fold. It means we anticipate it and lobby in the opposite direction from the get-go. It also means we must simultaneously promote campaign reform, overturning Citizens’ United, reforming non-profit law, etc.
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