The Big Oversell
All of these people making these bizarre claims about the CCS, and how they will "ensure" this and "allow" that---- these people are lying. They're overstating the case at the very minimum. Here's Brizard in reference to the CCS.
Next semester, all principals must carry out Brizard's order to teach a nationally recognized "common core standards curriculum."
"And what you'll see is a curriculum that's much more rich, that allows kids to think versus just prepare them for a test," said Brizard.
Actually, that's just not true. According to the logic of the Race to the Top, and of SB 7, we're going to be linking
Answering My Own Question
In reference to my question below...
Ken Previti has pointed me to this article the The Boston Phoenix, hot off the press yesterday. I think we all understand that Stand For Children is an astroturf group financed by the upper echelons of the 1%, but it's nice to see it in print again. If I were working for a group funded by these people, I'd at least ask myself some questions.
Ken Previti has pointed me to this article the The Boston Phoenix, hot off the press yesterday. I think we all understand that Stand For Children is an astroturf group financed by the upper echelons of the 1%, but it's nice to see it in print again. If I were working for a group funded by these people, I'd at least ask myself some questions.
FOLLOW THE MONEY
SFC's list of contributors includes the charity arms of investment firms that could benefit from laws that the group is rallying behind. At the top of that pack is Bain Capital, the Boston private equity investment fund co-founded by former commonwealth governor and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Since 2008, more than half a dozen Bain executives have served on national and local SFC boards. That same year, the firm acquired Bright Horizons, a Watertown, Massachusetts–based education-services company that builds and operates for-profit charter schools in