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Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan

 LANSING -- Prominent education expert and Common Core opponent Diane Ravitch is one of several high-profile witnesses scheduled to testify Wednesday on the standards before a Michigan House subcommittee studying the math and language arts guidelines.

Ravitch is a professor of education at New York University and a former assistant education secretary in George H.W. Bush's administration. She maintains a blog where she has written extensively about Common Core's implementation and her opposition to the standards.

Ravitch will be joined at the hearing by Williamson Evers, a research fellow from Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and by Sandra Stotsky, an education professor at the University of Arkansas -- both of whom have expressed opposition to the standards in the past.

Also scheduled to testify are Michigan State Board of Education President John C. Austin and a group from Business Leaders for Michigan including president Doug Rothwell. The business group has already endorsed the standards, and Austin was vice-president of the state board when it voted to adopt the Common Core State Standards in 2010.

Wednesday's hearing is also expected to include some opportunity for public comment, 

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