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Thursday, June 21, 2012

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core is a Money Making Venture and Social Justice. Is this the Educational Reform Taxpayers Want?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core is a Money Making Venture and Social Justice. Is this the Educational Reform Taxpayers Want?:


Common Core is a Money Making Venture and Social Justice. Is this the Educational Reform Taxpayers Want?



Forget the Arne Duncan "Happy Dance" and verbal spin about his plan of education reform.

Common Core and Race to the Top mandates are not about making students STEM ready or globally competitive.  It's about:
  • making preselected suppliers wealthy
  • centralized educational control
  • educational equity
That's it.  It's capitalist cronyism disguised as choice, centralization of power, and social justice played