In delivering on its mission, the 52-minute CGCS video features the usual suspects—Common Core architect and now head of the College Board David Coleman, David Liben and Sandra Alberti of Student Achievement Partners, a group co-founded by David Coleman and heftily funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ($6,533,350) and the General Electric Foundation ($18,000,000) , and Michael Casserly, Executive Director of CGCS. Professor of education at the Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, Lily Wong Filmore makes a brief appearance to explain the rationale for a kindergarten on complex text. More about this later.
The film is narrated by Frederick Secrease, who, in an audience-ingratiating move, starts out by saying, “Like you, I am an educator”
