Valerie
Straus, The Answer Sheet.
The Washington
Post.
Education
historian and activist Diane Ravitch, in a
post on her blog about Layton’s story, called the Gates involvement
an “educational coup.”
This is the closest thing to an
educational coup in the history of the United States. Our education system is
made up of about 14,000 local school districts; most education policy is set at
the state level. But Bill Gates was able to underwrite a swift revolution. It
happened so quickly that there was very little debate or discussion. Almost
every consequential education group was funded by the Gates Foundation to study
or promote the Common Core standards. Whereas most businesses would conduct
pilot testing of a major new product, there was no pilot testing of the Common
Core. These national standards were written with minimal public awareness or
participation, and at least one state — Kentucky — adopted them
before the final draft was finished.
Read the entire column.
Fascinating.
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