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Saturday, August 3, 2013

Perdido Street School: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents

Perdido Street School: Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents:



Do Not Allow The Education Reform Corporatists To Play Their "Divide And Conquer" Strategies Against Common Core Opponents

There's a steady barrage of attacks against the Common Core coming from the right these days.

Just this week we have Michelle Malkin's take-down of Tony Bennett and Jeb Bush at Townhall, a critique of the Common Coreat Rupert Murdoch's FOX News, an attack on the data-mining components to the Core at the American Thinker, Tea Partiers in Ohio looking to repeal the standards in the state, Tea Partiers and conservative rank and file giving it to Common Core shill/Idaho governor Tom Luna, and a small group of Tea Partiers protesting Governor Scott Walker's support of the Common Core in Wisconsin.

The Obama administration, the neoliberals in the Democratic establishment and the hedge fundies at the Democrats For Education Reform are worried that progressive critics of corporate education reform might join with these Tea Party and conservative opponents to the Core to drive a stake through the heart of the standards implementation movement.

As such, they're using a "divide and conquer" strategy to try and remind progressive opponents to corporate education reform just how much they do not have in common with these conservative