Gates probably signed on simply because Obama asked him to do so. Everything Obama touched turned to rusted out trash.
I don’t think it’s hard to understand. You create Common Core to sell textbooks. Then, 5 years down the road and it’s obvious it is not working, you print some new textbooks with new corrections and sell those.
What that works a bit better, but not good enough, you print more textbooks with more corrections.
Do this about 5 more times and pocket $200 billion dollars just to return to where the whole thing started.
In Texas we handled Common Core the right way - we told the federal government to STUFF IT.
...and then we renamed it and are now using it.
The “data” collected on children in school is still there. I believe this was the underlying purpose for common core. It’s still passed on to government for analysis. Common core is still with us.
The public education establishment (and almost all private schools) have been given the mission to produce equal results with vastly unequal material.
Nothing works.
Revision of the objective is impossible, since at least 70% of the people who create the schools and pay the bills (and most posters here) believe that its achievement is possible, and the only reason it does not happen is “bad schools” or “bad teachers”.
Therefore.
The pace of change accelerates. New theories to fulfill old promises emerge from the fetid swamps of Departments of Education, academic, State, and Federal. Common Core was one, rest assured, there will be many more.
The TL,DR version: It’s a disaster.
Gates didn’t have anyone competent enough to steal this idea from.
What Happened to Bill Gates and Common Core?
The kids are dumber then ever.