Education Commissioner Kevin Huffman told reporters earlier Tuesday that one misconception is that common core is a curriculum, “and it’s not.”“The common core is a set of standards that says your child should know ‘X’ at the end of the year,” he said. “The curriculum is still up to local schools and local districts, the way it always has been.”
While it's nice to say that "the curriculum is still up to local schools and local districts, the way it always has been," the reality is that the same Common Core "assessments" will be given in many different states, thus making what local schools and local districts can emphasize much less, uh, local.
The point is, Mr Ex-Michelle Rhee is playing a bait and switch game here, like many reformers, to fool people into thinking the Common Core is not something developed, funded and promoted by a very small reform cadre far from the local school districts and shoved down the throats of the states while most people weren't paying attention.
Now that people are waking up to the reality of the Common Core - and the national tests that will go along with them - they're not liking what they're seeing and they want some questions answered.
But as is often the case with the reform movement, Huffman just shucks and jives concerns of others and lies about the Common Core not taking away curriculum decisions from local schools and local districts.
Not a surprise from a guy who wants to take away the power to accept or reject charter school proposals from the local districts and give it to himself and his fellow central bureaucrats.
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