The Common Core Chuztpah of Bill Gates & CCSSO
Having “great fortitude” does not apply to The Gates Foundation or the CCSSO in their latest statements about state accountability testing and measures. Use your critical thinking skills and see if you agree.
During the Washington Post’s March 2014 interview with Bill Gates, reporter Lyndsey Layton asked him what he thought about being called “the unelected superintendent of the country”. Gates did not appreciate such a question and insisted Layton was making the interview political vs substantive. Perhaps he had second thoughts about that title. Has he now decided being the nation’s superintendent would be an appropriate job for him since he has invested heavily in the adoption and implementation of the Common Core State Standards Initiative? The NY Times writes that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has decreed:
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the country’s largest donors to educational causes and a strong backer of the academic guidelines known as the Common Core, has called for a two-year moratorium on states or school districts making any high-stakes decisions based on tests aligned with the new standards.
The Common Core, originally adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia and supported by the Obama administration, was devised by a group of educators and experts convened by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School The Common Core Chuztpah of Bill Gates & CCSSO | Missouri Education Watchdog: