Sunday, August 02, 2015
Uncommon core
Common Core continues to provide interesting exceptions to the usual rules. We've already seen teacher union thugs and Repooflicans working together against CC. Extremely peculiar, since teacher union thugs ARE the Democrat party in most states. We've also seen that CC has led to less uniformity in curricular materials and more school-level innovation and originality. Most important, CC breaks the century-long trend toward theoretical lunacy in American education, and steers schools back toward job-based skills.
Now we see McGraw Hill getting OUT of the standardized testing business. Motives are unclear; seems to dislike inconsistency and potential for lawsuits.
Normally the SOLE PURPOSE of a Federal mandate is to make life vastly easier for giants like McGraw Hill and vastly harder for small businesses and customers. Litigation plays a major role in this intentional upward redistribution. Fed programs create huge numbers of lawsuits, driving small operators out of the market. Obamacare is extremely normal, and previous Fed education mandates were also normal. Common Core is emphatically not normal.
Labels: Experiential education
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