Understanding Common Core is About Seeing a Much Larger Picture

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1. Common Core is about markets. Period.

I just read this article this morning.

Venture Capitalists Are Poised to ‘Disrupt' Everything About the Education Market - The Nation by Lee Fang

James Shelton, the Deputy Secretary, is a longtime education investor and the former co-founder of LearnNow, a charter chain that was sold to Edison Learning, a for-profit charter management company.

In an interview with EdSurge, a trade outlet, Shelton explained that the Common Core standards will allow education companies to produce products that "can scale across many markets," overcoming the "fragmented procurement market" that has plagued investors seeking to enter the K-12 sector.

Make no mistake, the so-called accountability movement in education is about the marketization and corporatization of our public schools. Sadly, the Obama administration has bought into this hook-line-and-sinker.

Teacher unions, parents, students and citizens of what remains of our democracy need to understand the full impact of what postmodern capitalism is all about before it is too late.