Don’t forget Marc
Marc Tucker must be mad. Bill Gates gets all the credit for our current transformation of education, when Marc was the mastermind of this “wholly restructured school system”. Creating national standards for academics and standards for workforce (and national assessments for both), turning schools into workforce apprenticeship training programs, and combining community college and high school, was all part ofMarc’s plan. Gates was just the money man.
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It seems Marc gets overlooked often. Take Lumina Foundation’s recent idea to create a National Department of Talent, combining Departments of Education, Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of the Department of Labor and the talent recruitment functions of the Citizenship and Immigration Service (USCIS) of the Department of Homeland Security. This idea sure sounds like Marc’s idea from 1992 to create the National Institute for Learning, Work and Service.
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People forget that Marc already tried “Outcome Based Education” (OBE), also sometimes called “Standards Based Education”. The high school diploma associated with Marc’s Outcome Based Education was called a “Certificate of Initial Mastery” (CIM). Marc tried this OBE, CIM project in Washington and Massachusetts schools. Sadly for Marc, and all the school children exposed to this experiment, it failed. Some would say Don’t forget Marc – Missouri Education Watchdog: