Merrow's Mockery Misses the Mark on Common Core
John Merrow is an intelligent man. But his latest post, The Common Core and the End of the World, is disappointing. First, rather than address the concerns raised by Common Core critics, Merrow compares us all to religious doomsayers like Pope Innocent III ("The world will end in 1284") and Cotton Mather ("Yea verily, the world will end in 1697").
As Merrow should know, critiques of the Common Core by myself and other writers are well-supported by evidence and experience, unlike the end-of-the-world predictions he quotes to mock us.
Here are the statements I have made which Merrow compares to doomsday alarms:
As Merrow should know, critiques of the Common Core by myself and other writers are well-supported by evidence and experience, unlike the end-of-the-world predictions he quotes to mock us.
Here are the statements I have made which Merrow compares to doomsday alarms:
The tests associated with Common Core are likely to renew the false indictment of our public
