Joel Klein Comes Clean
Nice to see Joel Klein finally confess to what the Common Core has really been about:
The good news is that the Common Core Standards, now adopted in 46 states, are creating incentives for innovation at the heart of the system. At last there's a common definition of what "good" looks like for students and teachers, at least in core subjects like math and English. This helps explain why venture capital is now flowing in record sums to startups seeking to serve K-12 schools—and why larger firms (likethe one I lead) are for the first time assembling world class teams of educators, technologists, and designers to tackle these challenges.
There's no guarantee that many of these new entrants will succeed—that's the nature of