This is posted in the NEW YORK Times, does he not realize most High School finals in NY are State Regents exams? ALL NY kids take the same finals— therefore what is taught throughout the state, in every school district, needs to follow the same curriculum! In NY state common core is not just a bunch of goals a teacher should strive for, teachers must teach for tests they don’t create and hope they have covered all of the material. Your class doesn’t finish the book in time? To bad, they will be tested on it. Got a really bad teacher? To bad you take the same test the teacher of the year’s students take.
I wonder if David “Perfect Crease in Obama’s Pant Leg” Brooks has seen “Building the Machine”.
FREEPers should watch it too:
commoncoremovie.com