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Achieve Says Mission-Based Common Core Tests Deliver the Goods

By Susan Ohanian on August 8, 2013 3:20 pm / no comments

 by Susan Ohanian

The press release emanating from the office of Achieve Inc CEO Michael Cohen raises certain questions. First, note that Cohen’s previous jobs include: Director of Education Policy at the National Governors Association (1985-90) and Director of Planning and Policy Development at the National Association of State Boards of Education (1983-1985). During the Clinton Administration he served as Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education, Special Assistant to President Clinton for Education Policy, and Senior Advisor to U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley.

Reading the press release, I wonder:

*HOW to get people to raise up against the oppressive phraseknowledge-based economy, a term rolling off the tongues of the “haves” as an excuse for their refusal to acknowledge the vital skills possessed by people making things work every day, a term employed to keep people in their place, a term that won’t provide a living wage;

*WHEN the media will recognize that the Standardisto “knowledge-based economy” is a smokescreen for the Corporate “greed-based