As with the Iraq catastrophe, the NYT is actively manufacturing a "case" for ...
... the Common Core "State" Standards. And doing so with the same systematic intellectual and factual dishonesty. (Three "pro" opinion pieces in four days! Are they
getting $$$ bonuses for cranking out this bullshit? God knows... there's enough $$$ behind CC . Some of it must be earmarked for what Gates calls "advocacy". )
Venerable edublogger Susan Ohanian deconstructs the deconstructible:
>>>>>Keller was executive editor at the New York Times from 2003--2011, where he was a leading supporter of the Iraq invasion. Although he has since returned to his status as writer, he remains infected by the Times editorial bias on education policy. It seems significant that Keller's father was chairman and chief executive of the Chevron Corporation.
Keller employs a deliberate strategy of welding opponents of the Common Core with the lunatic fringe. Note that no progressive who opposes the Common Core is mentioned. No superintendent of schools opposing the Common Core is mentioned. No researcher opposing the Common Core is mentioned. No parent opposing the Common Core is mentioned.
Here are just a few of Keller's misrepresentations, fabrications, and downright lies:
the Common Core, a project by a consortium of states...
*** Send in the $$$$$ Yes, states signed on. . . because a whole lot of Federal money was at stake; there was a lot of heavy arm-twisting coming out of the US Department of Education.
the Common Core was created with a broad, nonpartisan consensus of educators
***Liar! Liar! Pants on Fire!
***The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation dumped hundreds of millions into the creation of the Common Core.
***David Coleman and Susan Pimentel, Common Core chief architects and edupreneurs, are NOT educators.>>>>.
She must get tired of doing this. Here's the rest: http://susanohanian.org/core.php?id=558
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