“Out, damned spot; out, I say.” — Melinda Gates, we call your power to account.
“What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?”
–Lady Macbeth
Mrs. Gates:
At the National Conference of State Legislatures on July 21st, 2009, your husband spokeabout our country’s economic crisis and offered an unlikely solution: the Common Core State Standards and the tests that go with them. He asked his audience to “accelerate[school] reform” and came to the following conclusion:
“When the tests are aligned to the common standards, the curriculum will line up as well—and that will unleash powerful market forces in the service of better teaching. For the first time, there will be a large base ofcustomers eager to buy products that can help every kid learn and
