You never heard of Saul Alinsky?
Bill Ayers?
Common Core?
Of course I’ve heard of them. But Saul and Bill had no influence on me or the people I taught with. Common Core, well, that did. But because I taught history, it had no effect on my subject matter, because CC doesn’t (or didn’t) have much to do with history. I was told that I was to encourage reading and math skills in my history classes. Since history is mostly reading, I had that covered–I always chose texts with the highest reading level available. I’d throw in an occasional math problem on my history tests just to watch them struggle with a question like “The Wright brothers flew their plane in 1903—how long ago was that?” And no, they weren’t allowed to use calculators.