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Friday, July 19, 2013

Missouri Education Watchdog: Will the Common Core Lobby Bully the Left as it Has Bullied the Right?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Will the Common Core Lobby Bully the Left as it Has Bullied the Right?:

Will the Common Core Lobby Bully the Left as it Has Bullied the Right?

An increasingly diverse group is standing up to the Common Core bullies



The left and the right are combining forces in opposing Common Core.  The pro-Common Core lobby is surrounded by all sides. 

From The National Educational Policy Center (NEP and Susan Ohanian.org: Finding Common Ground on the Common Core:

Ohanian Comment: Most media position opposition to the Common Core as a Teapot phenomenon. I'm hardly a Teapartier. Stephen Krashen is hardly a Teapartier. Sam Smith of Progressive Review is hardly a Teapartier. And so on.
 


Much conservative opposition is informed by solid research. And progressive research shows the same thing. 



Michigan Rep. Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills) has asked Achieve, Inc. "repeatedly" to see the minutes or other records of meetings where the content standards were developed.



This should be the rallying cry of both conservatives and progressives: Show us the meat! Show us how