What do the fiscal cliff and Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have in common?
For the answer consider this scenario: An arsonist sets a home on fire, and then risks his life fighting the blaze—...
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Phenomenal article.
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Ultimately in education and society, we are praising the arsonists who create perpetual fires that feed their masquerading as firefighters.
We must stop bending to the manufactured crises as mechanisms for the privileged to maintain their privilege.
In education, the question is not how to implement CCSS, but how to halt the never-ending cycles of new standards and new tests that distract us from the job of fulfilling the public guarantee of equity and opportunity for each and every person, in their lives and in their learning."