To Education Post’s Peter Cunningham on His Common-Core-Promotion Effort
Peter Cunningham is in charge of what blogger Anthony Cody terms, “education’s only multi-million-dollar blog,” Education Post. In an interview with another blogger, corporate-reform bee charmer, Jennifer Berkshire (“EduShyster”), Cunningham divulges the privatizing-reform origins of Education Post:
When I was asked to create this organization—it wasn’t my idea; I was initially approached by Broad—it was specifically because a lot of reform leaders felt like they were being piled on and that no one would come to their defense. They said somebody just needs to help right the ship here. There was a broad feeling that the anti-reform community was very effective at piling on and that no one was organizing that on our side. There was unequivocally a call to create a community of voices that would rise to the defense of people pushing reform who felt like they were isolated and alone.
Twelve million Arnold Foundation dollars later, we have Cunningham doing as he was asked by billionaire Eli Broad. We have the pro-privatizing-reform blog haven,Education Post, a place for “a different conversation about public education.”
A $12 million blog surely is “different.” As for the “conversation”– well– that’s become all-too-predictable.
On May 20, 2015, I read a piece on Peter Cunningham’s amply-funded Education Post about a Louisiana third-grade teacher, Meredith Starks, who is “clinging to” the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and is “terrified that they will be taken away.”
Regarding her teaching capabilities with her students, Starks maintains that CCSS is what enables her “to push them further, to question them deeper, and to support them more than ever before.” She simply cannot teach well without them.
Those are some powerful standards.
Starks continues her CCSS defense by stating that CCSS will even be able to move To Education Post’s Peter Cunningham on His Common-Core-Promotion Effort | deutsch29: