Close Reading Exercise of the Day: The STL Post-Dispatch and Its Lack of Understanding of Common Core Issues
Postcard from Mound City, May 3
It’s interesting that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch insists on running editorials, op eds and cartoons supporting Common Core. It’s a newspaper that supported the Occupy movement which fought against corporate interests directing government policy. The fact that corporatists are in charge of public education (while being funded by the Federal Government) is apparently lost on the Post’s editorial board. It turns a blind eye to the extraordinary amount Bill Gates has funneled into Common Core and private industry directing public policy.
The Editorial Board must not have done its due diligence on what Common Core States Standards Initiative really is. PUBLIC education development/delivery is now being controlled by PRIVATE organizations held unaccountable to voters and legislatures while using taxpayer money.
Can anyone tell me why a paper supportive of Occupy Wall Street would be supportive of Common Core? Is the Post-Dispatch supportive of large corporations such as Pearson controlling the market (destroying competition from smaller businesses) while using taxpayer money with no taxpayer input? Is the Post-Dispatch supportive of an initiative that is nothing more than a massive stimulus funding program (it’s not a law)…and whose funding is due to run out in Close Reading Exercise of the Day: The STL Post-Dispatch and Its Lack of Understanding of Common Core Issues | Missouri Education Watchdog: