Who is Distorting the Truth About The Common Core?
David Musselwhite, the team leader of the Michigan PTA’s Common Core State Standards Initiative accuses critics of the Common Core State Standards of distorting the truth about the Core in an op/ed published this week. He writes:
It isn’t difficult to find naysayers who lump the Common Core into arguments against what they call “corporate education reform.”Common Core critics, in their haste to paint anything related to standardized testing as “the intellectual maiming of an entire generation,” to quote Scott Baker’s commentary in Bridge, ignore the many benefits Common Core will provide to teachers, parents, and students.
Actually my particular criticism, as well as many others, stems from the fact that the Common Core State Standards have been implemented in an unconstitutional manner through pressure from the U.S. Department of Education’s carrot and stick approach by passing state elected officials. Also I have a problem that they haven’t