How about you take a look at ten minutes of video.  David Coleman lead the language arts team for Common Core, even though he has never been a teacher.  
Due warning -  Coleman is now head of the College Board, and in that capacity responsible for both the SATs and the Advanced Placement examinations.
Thus how he approaches things will carry inordinate weight in shaping education for America's future.
So take a look, and then see what you think.





For myself, I have serious problems with his approach.  For what it is worth, Coleman thinks it might take 5 class periods to do justice to the document in question, King's Letter from Birmingham Jail.
In fact, I do not think it would take more than parts of three class periods, 30 minutes of each.
1.  Watch video of events in Birmingham
-- the children's March
--  the police dogs and fire hoses
2.  Read the original statement in the New York Times that so provoked King and discuss
3.  Read and discuss the letter itself.
Each of the segments listed above is faryou want to know what's wrong with Common Core?: