who in continuing to attack those who oppose Common Core
told a group of state schools superintendents Friday that he found it “fascinating” that some of the opposition to the Common Core State Standards has come from “white suburban moms who — all of a sudden — their child isn’t as brilliant as they thought they were, and their school isn’t quite as good as they thought they were.”
(the above quoted from this post at Valerie Strauss's Answer Sheet Blog)
The following appeared on the Facebook page of Gretchen Moran Laskas, whose son attends school in Fairfax County VA, and is crossposted here with her permission:
I want to share a little bit why I'm so angry at Secretary of Education's Arne Duncan's 



teacherken at Daily Kos 11-16-13
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