And concern about the Common Core DOES NOT MEAN opposition to proper standards
Fellow Connecticut columnist and public education advocate Jonathan Kantrowitz recently made an incredibly important point about the difference between improving education standards and the Common Core. Kantrowitz writes for the Hearst Media Group and he his particular expertise in curriculum development. In a piece entitled, “Comparing Math Standards – Common Core, Connecticut and Massachusetts
A CT teacher responds to Pryor’s decision to spend $1 million in taxpayer funds to “advertise” the Common Core
The Waterbury Republican-American newspaper recently revealed in an investigative news article that Governor Malloy’s Commissioner of Education Stefan Pryor was hiring a public relations company to help implement a $1 million advertising campaign to promote the “Common Core.” The story was picked up here at Wait, What?, on Diane Ravitch’s blog and by Politico, a […]The post A CT teacher responds t
12-28-13 Wait What? All Week
Wait What?: Wait What? All WeekCorporate welfare gone amok: “For ESPN, Millions to Remain in Connecticut”The New York Times had an incredible article yesterday about Governor Malloy’s decision to give tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer funded corporate welfare checks to the extraordinarily successful ESPN Company. Malloy is hardly the first Connecticut governor to provide excessive corporate