Backer of Common Core
School Curriculum Is Chosen to Lead College Board
By Tamar Lewin : New
York Times
David Coleman, an architect of the common
core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will
become the president of the College Board,
starting in October.
Editors
note: Common core standards is what the politicians talk about while cutting
school budgets. Such standards do
not teach a single student.
“There’s no reason on earth for common core standards and these tests that we’re wasting billions of dollars on,” said Stephen Krashen, an emeritus education professor at the University of Southern California. “The problem is poverty, poverty, poverty. Middle-class children who go to well-funded schools do very well, but even the best tests, the most inspiring teachers, won’t mean anything if the kids don’t have enough to eat.”
