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Common Core and Swing Set Equity? | deutsch29

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Common Core and Swing Set Equity?

On October 06, 2015, I had the following comment to my post, Those 24 Common Core 2009 Work Group Members.
The purpose of her comment is to thank the Common Core creators for their hand in righting the wrongs in American public education, including some unclear connection between Common Core and swing set availability.
With Common Core, the commenter considers that “the secrets of the whites are out”; she apparently expects Common Core to produce educational equity even though Common Core was created to accompany high-stakes testing, and Common Core testing is actually widening the achievement gap between white children and children of color (see here and here, for example).
Finally, the individual writing the comment identifies herself as a tutor, a head-tilting moment for me as I read her comment, which I offer below in full, exactly as she Common Core and Swing Set Equity? | deutsch29: