The Common Core could well be Obama's worst policy. [View all]

[greatlaurel]

I am not against academic standards or the even the concept of national standards for education, but the Common Core that is being shoved through is a corporate raid on public schools.

The Common Core was developed without the input of education professionals. I read through the science common core and it is nearly unintelligible. It drones on and on in corporate speak. In Finland, they have national standards and their science standard is a page and half.

Common Core was developed by the Gates Foundation, the Walton Foundation and the Broad Foundation in conjunction with the Pearson corporation. These outfits are all rabidly against public education. They push massive amounts of testing to enrich the computer companies and the testing companies.

Common Core is an unmitigated disaster for public schools and for students. Just like Cuomo, Arnie Duncan and President Obama are addicted to the corporate cash that is being spent to rob our public schools of billions of dollars. It is a great investment from the corporate point of view to get a great return on a few million dollars given to politicians to get billions of dollars that they will skim form the public schools. Wall Street is all for Common Core and charter schools, so we know it will not be good for the 97%.

I advise you to go Diane Ravitch's blog to read articles that go into in-depth on Common Core and charter schools. It is eye opening.
Here is a link to an article about Bill Gates cheerleading for Common Core. http://dianeravitch.net/2014/03/14/what-bill-gates-told-national-board-for-professional-teaching-standards-about-common-core/

Here is a quote "The article says that the Gates Foundation had spent $75 million on the standards, but we know from Mercedes Schneider’s study of the Gates’ website that the foundation has spent nearly $200 million to pay for every aspect of the Common Core: the writing, the reviews, the evaluation, the implementation, the promotion and advocacy by numerous groups inside the Beltway and across the nation."

He says it is the key to creativity in the classroom. Nothing could be farther from the truth. It is destroying all creativity in the classroom. Ask any teacher where it is being implemented. But it does increase corporate profits!

I generally support President Obama, but his education policies are a total disaster for public education. Charter schools are re-segregating our schools at record speed. I am willing to bet the Obamas' must not know any public school teachers.