Education and Strange Bedfellow: Common Core is Wrong
First off - read Anthony Cody's column from his Living in Dialogue slot at Education Week. READ IT in its entirety. Why? Because it gives quite the total picture of Common Core and why so many - yes, including Tea Party folks - are against it. Worried about it. And will fight it. You should be, too, if only to protect your child's privacy. Here's the basics from his column but again, READ IT: "1. Sharing of student and teacher data with third party developers of all sorts, with no guarantees of privacy. As noted in this post, there are plans in place in some states such as Illinois and New York, and others as well, to collect massive amounts of data, which will be housed in a cloud based databank maintained by inBloom, a non-profit created by the Gates Foundation for this purpose."