Look at Who’s Partnering with Verizon to Deliver Common Core Offal
by Susan Ohanian
Parents and teachers are faced with a volcanic eruption of curriculum claiming to deliver the Common Core State [sic] Standards. Here’s a look at one coterie (check out the third meaning: a group of prairie dogs occupying a communal burrow) gathered under the Verizon Foundation umbrella. Verizon invites Partners to join them at Thinkfinity to bring “thousands” of Common Core standards-based lesson plans from “leading educational organizations” to teachers.
Click on Thinkfinity and faster than you can say “Bill Gates” (who did, after all pay for the development and promotion of the Common Core) you will have a lesson for middle graders on exciting verbs in “Hamlet” and a lesson plan on “Phonic Generalizations in Chrysanthemum” for the K-2 set.
The thing writing about education entrepreneurs is that you never have to make anything up to get a laugh.
But who’s laughing now? Chrysanthemum happens to be one of my favorite books–ever. More about this later. First, let’s look at what’s going on here.
First off, these lesson plans come with a Seal of Approval:
Seal of approvalAll Verizon Thinkfinity content is endorsed by our content partners [emphasis added], the nation’s leading education organizations, who either develop or review
