Monday, May 19, 2014

New Phrase Emerges to Describe Anti-Common Coreites: “Barbarians at the Gate” | Missouri Education Watchdog

New Phrase Emerges to Describe Anti-Common Coreites: “Barbarians at the Gate” | Missouri Education Watchdog:



New Phrase Emerges to Describe Anti-Common Coreites: “Barbarians at the Gate”

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Definition of Barbarians at the Gate: deal makers and publicity flaks….industrial powerhouse…savage fight for the control of RJT Nabisco, the largest takeover in Wall Street History.
THAT’S how Arizona Superintendent Huppenthal describes those who oppose Common Core State Standards. In this close reading in the passage above, detail how “barbarians at the gate” is an appropriate description (or not) of those against the Common Core State Standards Initiative.  Do Anti-Common Coreites:
  • make countless deals with private education reformers and legislators for financial windfall
  • have public relation companies chomping at the bit to represent their efforts
  • have Bill Gates Foundation funding to deliver their message
  • have the power in the educational industry
  • savagely fight for the control of public schools so that public education is controlled by private organizations
Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal today compared Common Core opponents to “barbarians at the gate’’ and vowed to fight them to preserve the educational standards.


Huppenthal said Arizona cannot allow a repeat in Arizona of what happened in Indiana, New Phrase Emerges to Describe Anti-Common Coreites: “Barbarians at the Gate” | Missouri Education Watchdog:

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