In 20002, Business Week Revealed Why Common Core Disdains Fiction
by susano
And the little very very very very very very very old man smiled, and looking at the faerie he said: ‘Why?’ —e. e. cummings, The Old Man Who Said Why
This is the kind of writing primary graders savor. I speak from first-hand, on-the-spot observation here. Of course, teacher experience, knowledge, and intuition count for nothing. Education policy makers are deaf to my expertise. Unions are deaf to my expertise. NCTE, my professional organization for decades, is deaf to my expertise.
The only way teachers appear at the ed reform table is when they’re served up as the main course—to be eaten alive. I advise teachers to remember Thomas Pynchon’s warning in Gravity’s Rainbow: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.
And Glen Ford at Black Agenda Radio has seen the handwriting on the wall for years. He warned us that the goal of corporate education reform is to turn teaching into a service industry. In his commentary The Corporate Dream: Teachers as Temps, Ford pointed out that “Teachers are the biggest obstacle in the way of the
