Category Archives: Common Core

It’s Bad, Bad Common Core

Posted on August 1, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Found this video while surfing this morning. Enjoy! Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core, Video | Comments Off

Tennessean Author’s Chuckle-worthy Defense of Common Core

Posted on August 1, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Another day, another Pro-core Op-ed.
This one at The Tennessean by a woman named Betty Anderson. None of these Op-Eds or their authors are really as simple as they seem. Keep reading and you’ll see what I mean. From the article, about Ms. Anderson and I’ve added some hyperlinks to the text:

Betty Anderson is the executive director of Stand for Children Tennessee, an education advocacy organization. She has been involved in education policy for more than 40 years in Tennessee.

A few points about “Stand for Children”
It’s not just a Tennessee outfit, it’s a national one. Yet another education non-profit to add to the myriad of them already out there. It is run by Jonah Edelman, who revealed some tactics in his idea of a ‘corporate education reform’ scenario that got him in hot water.

Stand for Children does a lot of focusing on parents and empowering them. It figures the Pro-Core machine would tap them to push Common Core.

There is a lot of money behind Stand For Children – I know, you’re shocked.
They have two arms, the Stand for Children Leadership Center is a 501(c)(3) and the other is Stand for Children, Inc. which is a 501(c)(4). This split allows them to enter into some political arenas. In 2012, Stand for Children Inc. gave over $321k to campaigns and PACS to influence education races and blew nearly half a million on ‘consulting and strategy’ groups. If you wish to view their 990 tax filings, hit the links below:

Stand for Children Leadership Center
Stand for Children Inc.
Fun fact: The woman in charge of the political version, Stand for Children, Inc., is none other than Michael Bloomberg’s daughter, Emma. Read more about Emma’s focus and link to Teach for America here.

In 2013, the two non-profits had c Continue reading →

Posted in A.P. Dillon (LL1885), Common Core | Comments Off

Market Analysis Confirms Common Core Is A Cash Cow

Posted on July 31, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

A market analysis done by Onvia Inc. seems to be pointing at Common Core to be one of the biggest cash cows ever in terms of Education contracts and technology. Onvia serves a variety of industries, but the Education industry’s page was eye-opening. The estimated cost in the report is likely already out of date. The document also addresses technology as being one of the most expensive pieces of Common Core. Mr. Gates will be pleased to hear that after he dumped around $3 billion into pushing Common Core from his Gates Foundation.
This market analysis is a White paper on spending related to Common Core. Onvia quotes the Fordham Institute quite a lot throughout the paper – 17 times. The paper also makes CommonCoreAlignedreference to an Onvia database where a query on Common Core returned over 4,000 matches in project documents.

KEEP READING… Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core | Tagged Common Core, Common Core Aligned | 1 Comment

Common Core Architect Coleman’s Apoloattack

Posted on July 30, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Politico has a little snippet up about David Coleman. In it Coleman is caught repeating the new talking point: Don’t attack the critics.

Coleman then turns around and attacks the critics in the last section of the Politico snippet while seemingly supporting their concerns. Amazing. Yeah, those data concerns… totally loony?

Related reading: Changes to the AP History, Gates lobbies for more data collection

scG-coleman-unqualified

Relevant portion of the Politico piece: Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core | 1 Comment

Advancing NH’s Public Education And Dishonesty

Posted on July 30, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

Well, the tide is turning on Common Core. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Demonizing the public, parents, teachers and kids to advance the Core has backfired big time. The PR/messaging behemoth behind Common Core needs a new line of attack.

It looks like the focus is now going after the experts who dared call out the flaws in the Core. At least for one New Hampshire guy.

@manateespirit Oh, I left one… Did you see the new shift? Going after Milgram not parents. Watch, Stotsky is next.

— LL1885 – A.P. Dillon (@LadyLiberty1885) July 30, 2014

This is a bit ironic since prior to now, the powers that be behind the Core were doing their best to wipe out evidence of the Validation committee dissenters.

Advancing New Hampshire’s Public Education (ANHPE) has an article titled James Milgram’s dishonest critique of the Common Core math standards apparently written by Bill Duncan. Mr. Duncan goes after Dr. Milgram claiming the examples Milgram used in the Pioneer White Paper from 2010 called ‘Fair To Midling’ are flawed because… well, Duncan’s entire premise rests on the idea Milgram only used a portion of the standards and not the whole thing. This is a White Paper, Mr. Duncan. That comparison is called an example and is commonly used to represent a larger body of information because the rest is largely more of the same.

Let’s talk about dishonesty.

Dr. Milgram is a Mathematician.
Dr. Milgram is also a Professor Emeritus at Stanford University and is extremely well-known and respected. He was on the validation committee for Common Core and — clearly, someone thought he knew his stuff. For the love of Pete, his bio is on the NASA website.

Milgram’s out there for the world to see. Mr. Duncan? Not so much. Continue reading →

Posted in Common Core | Comments Off

Guest Post: A Common Core Dear John Letter

Posted on July 29, 2014 by A.P. Dillon

This is a reader submitted guest post. Dear John C. Core, You appear to be suffering from an identity crisis, so being the helpful person I am, I thought I’d sit down and see if I could be … Continue reading →