“I always liked William Buckley’s remark years ago. ‘I’d rather be governed by the first hundred names in the telephone directory than a hundred faculty at Harvard.’ In other words, the common person has better common sense than a hundred faculty members at Harvard. So this is what self-government is about. You don’t elect monarchs or Platos…philosophical elite. You listen to peoples’ point of view and you rationally work your way through. But we don’t have people who want to articulate that at the top level. And Common Core is just the opening wedge. It sounds innocuous. It sounds good. Why shouldn’t we have the same math standards in every single state, but then it turns out that at the high school level they’re about two grades lower.” (Quote from Sandra Stotsky, Ed.D., the only English language arts content specialist on the 30-person Common Core validation committee. She nor the only mathematics content specialist approved the standards.) https://youtube/watch?v=zjxBClx01jc
Posted on: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:03:10 +0000