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Fifty million children are enrolled in public schools in the U.S., yet in none of the debates was there any discussion of the areas of concern that have occupied educators and parents in recent years: the Common Core, teacher evaluation, standardized testing, or the effective segregation of schools in many parts of the country, including in New York City.
So I would argue that the opposition to Common Core, teacher evaluations, and high-stakes testing has everything to do with the unprecedented incompetence at these attempts at reform rather than the ostensible worth of their content.
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So rather than Common Core or teacher unions or issues other candidates are advancing, Trump seems to articulate things at least some people would like to hear.
Small schools, Common Core and teacher evaluation were not started by the Gates Foundation.
This organization creates pathways for educators to move throughout America by linking states through the NASDTEC Interstate Agreement, which provides a common core for teacher certification while giving states autonomy to tailor certification requirements to fit their individual needs.
But more important than historical gaffes is the substance of what common core asks teachers to do.
So, the question remains: does the Common Core demoralize teachers?
The startup will use its new funding to beef up its staff (now at eight) and launch a new, common core-inspired, teacher-to-teacher learning project that aims to help teachers capture and share the best and most effective approaches to classroom management, lesson plans and curriculum.
But in this age of extreme teacher scrutiny, common core debates, revamped teacher evaluation systems, textbook and funding fights, and unprecedented hyper-focus on the education profession in general, wisecracks like that serve only to drive a negative narrative chipping away at an honorable profession.
But they do speak to a pattern among public policy-makers and influential philanthropists who push specific school reforms — such as charter schools, the elimination of teacher tenure, Common Core, and evaluation of teachers by test scores — yet send their own children to private schools that do none of these things.
I can only guess that Reagan speeches are included because the common core must present teachers with conservative Republican alternatives.
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