“College and Career Ready” Contest Begins!
There it is again! Arne Duncan and John King said it at almost the same time!
“College and career-ready.”
If someone would give me one dollar for every time I hear that phrase come out of some Common Core supporter’s mouth, I could probably leave work an hour early every day.
Say it again, John! Say it AGAIN!!
Arne Duncan, Barack Obama, NY Ed Commish John King, Randi Weingarten, and some lady who just gave me a good bashing (even though she has no idea who I am). They all keep saying it, like it’s going to make a rabbit jump out of their collective top hat.
But, you know what precisely none of them have done? None of them have defined what it means. In this data-obsessed “reform” movement, there has got to be some kind of benchmark or ultimate-learning-student or best-kid-in-the-world or something that we can look at as the picture of success. Instead, all we have are poorly written standards that have absolutely no evidence to suggest that they will lead to this utopian high school graduate. Without a definition, the phrase is completely meaningless.
C’mon, guys. What does “college and career-ready” mean? Once and for all,
