Campbell Brown Plans to Explain Common Core
Campbell Brown is going to help America understand what Common Core really is.
So she says as part of her July 28, 2015, interview with Jon Ward of Yahoo! Politics:
What we want to do with Common Core is explain it. Just put honesty and truth back into the debate….
I just published a book on the history, development, and promotion of Common Core, Common Core Dilemma: Who Owns Our Schools? (TC Press, June 2015), and I have news for Campbell Brown:
Common Core did not begin in “honesty and truth,” and you cannot “put back” what was not present to begin with.
If Common Core was officially completed in June 2010, why would there be confusion in 2015 over what Common Core actually is?
Simple: Common Core is yet another top-down reform; it started years before it made its 2010 public appearance, and much of the planning and promoting that led to the June 2010 release of Common Core was chiefly orchestrated by relatively few politically-positioned individuals.
That is why there is confusion in 2015 over a Common Core that publicly emerged in 2010.
What is amusing is that Campbell Brown thinks that she and her staff of 12 will produce some pieces focused on Common Core and clear up the issue once and for all. The problem is that Common Core was politically birthed, and much of that “public confusion” is the delayed consequence of governors and state superintendents deciding that they would adopt Common Core in their states before there was even a Common Core product to examine.
In her Yahoo! interview, Brown states that she wants to “restore some of the nuance and thoughtfulness to the debate around Common Core.”
Well, here’s a nuance for Brown: At the June 2009 National Governors Association (NGA) summit, 46 states and 3 territories already signed on for a Common Core yet to be written but already declared to be connected to federally-funded consortia-produced tests.
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