Who's muddying the waters and who's minding the schools?
Peter Cunningham is no educator. He's is a PR guy, and a pretty good one, who flacked for Arne Duncanback in Chicago and then followed him to D.C. where Duncan somehow made him an assistant secretary of education.
On Monday, the blog of the right-wing Fordham Institute carried Cunningham's polemic ("Muddying up the waters") aimed at Common Core critics Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus. Hacker is an emeritus professor of political science at Queens College, City University of New York. Dreifus is an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
A clearly over-matched Cunningham, was responding to their New York Times piece, "Who's Minding the Schools?". Why he chose Flypaper for his polemic is anyone's guess. But in the process, he winds up