Let's Make a Common Core Video featuring Herrings and Doves! The Sunday Education Weekly Reader 04.01.12
Welcome to the Sunday Education Weekly Reader for April Fool's Day 2012! We're really not doing a video for Common Core standards as so many teachers have, but if we did do a video, we'd probably sing about how they are:
- unproven
- untested
- underfunded
- unconstitutional
Today is April Fool's Day and two explanations of this minor holiday are appropriate when thinking about the "reforms" trotted out by Arne Duncan. Think of the DOEd as the agency playing sinister April fool jokes on the American public. We have been the fools kicked hard by expensive and overreaching mandates and regulations, resulting in a centralized agency controlling all educational decisions and programs:
