The “emotion” Petrilli advocates is manufactured as part of an advertising campaign. Indeed, Petrilli-concocted “emotional arguments” will be entirely void of any firsthand connection to the public school classroom upon which CCSS is intended to be imposed.
From his position as CCSS promoter external to the classroom, in his July 31, 2014, post, Petrilli lists what he considers to be “legitimate concerns” regarding CCSS.
He lists three (federal role; standards aren’t perfect; confusing, convoluted textbooks).
He chooses not to address the fact that CCSS “success” rests wholly upon ideology and theory.
He does not mention that CCSS is assumed to work– nothing more.
Never tested. Assumed to work. Called “not perfect” by Petrilli, yet the
CCSS website sells CCSS as The Solution:
To ensure all students are ready for success after high school, the Common Core State Standards establish clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know and be able to do in math and English language arts from kindergarten through 12thgrade. [Emphasis added.]
Petrilli notes that some schools might “interpret” CCSS as a “ceiling” rather than a “floor.”
Michael Petrilli recently announced the Common Core advocates needed to change their marketing push for the privately owned/copyrighted standards for public schools and be more ‘emotional’. From Politico and Moms winning the Common Core war: