There are some good articles on what school choice is about if you would bother to read them. Common Core is the least of our worries, we have to keep our eyes on the structure they are shooting for. I think we will have to go down this road before we realize what it really means. Slick marketing and echo chambers abound on School Choice. CC gets rebranded.
Here is an excerpt on Choice from the linked article below:
“That’s what School Choice has always been about. This is from the Foreword to the 1990 book, written by the Brookings’ President (my bolding):
“the nation’s education problem, then, is an institutional problem. To overcome it, the authors recommend a new system of public education based on fundamentally new institutions. They propose a shift away from a system of schools controlled directly by the government–through politics and bureaucracy–to a system of indirect control that relies on markets and parental choice.”
Trump never conferred with the activists who live and breathe education on the ground as he did on immigration.
We had to take a hit somewhere I guess.
From the site:
Q: There’s been a lot of talk about Common Core. Can you provide some straight talk on this topic?
Certainly. I am not a supporter—period.
I do support high standards, strong accountability, and local control. When Governors such as John Engler, Mike Huckabee, and Mike Pence were driving the conversation on voluntary high standards driven by local voices, it all made sense.
Have organizations that I have been a part of supported Common Core? Of course. But that’s not my position. Sometimes it’s not just students who need to do their homework.
However, along the way, it got turned into a federalized boondoggle.
Above all, I believe every child, no matter their zip code or their parents’ jobs, deserves access to a quality education.
Rush job. Reversing the order of paragraphs 3 & 4 would make for better flow / clarity. :-)