The Kick-off of "Parents as Partners Week": Who is David Coleman and why should we care?

In reality, the Common Core standards are being imposed from above, pushed by the Gates Foundation and others, with no proof of efficacy and no input from parents.
David Coleman, who is going to give a presentation on the CC, gave one last April to “educational leaders” hosted by SED; here are videos and transcripts . As reported in EdWeek:
Working under a contract with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, an avid backer of the standards, David Coleman and Susan Pimentel wrote a pair of documents highlighting the key ideas of the standards and describing the qualities of instructional materials they consider a faithful reflection of them.
As of August 2011, 44 states and the District of Columbus adopted the Common Core, in exchange for the