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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think that this is an accurate description. The outrage from the left doesn't come specifically from the teachers' unions; it comes from people who oppose corporations getting involved in public education (which includes standardized testing, for-profit charter schools, value-added evaluation systems, and so on), as well as people who believe that there shouldn't be any standards or requirements or homework or testing. And, really, the corporatization of public education preceded the Common Core, and making the Common Core go away won't make the corporatization go away.[/quote]

If they are upset about corporations getting involved in public education then where have they been for the last 75 years given corporations have driven textbooks and curricula?  They have been there all along.

Where have they been all this time when the biggest racket has been in massive expenditures in private sector contracts for school buildings, maintenance contracts, et cetera?  I'm not sure I buy this sudden outrage.[/quote]

I think that's unfair. A lot of this group of opponents has been at this fight since the late 1990s at least. And yes, corporations have always made money on schools, but there hasn't always been so much corporation involvement in school reform, specifically. Somebody's giving Michelle Rhee's organization an awful lot of money. Who?

The lefty opposition is correct that the educational corporations are pushing the Common Core -- and it's reasonable to assume that the educational corporations expect to make money off it, because otherwise why do it? And the Tea Party opposition is correct that the Obama administration is pushing the Common Core. But neither of these facts make the Common Core standards, themselves, bad.[/quote]

This is true, but you cannot write a set of standards and then leave it at that. The devil is always in the details. I can write a set of broad specs for, say, a piece of software, but I can guarantee you that the way it's implemented, is going to make or break the product.[/quote]

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