RANsquawk - Week Ahead - 20th April 2015

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[nmewn]

Now for your morning dose of managerial, technocratic, bureaucratic progressivism, brought to you by none other than Mrs.Clinton:

"Wow. That is really a powerful, touching comment that I absolutely embrace. When I think about the really unfortunate argument that been going on around Common Core, it's very painful, because the Common Core started out as a bi-partisan effort -- it was actually non-partisan.

It wasn't politicized, it was to try to come up with a core of learning that we might expect students to achieve across our country, no matter what kind of school district they were in, no matter how poor their family was, that there wouldn't be two tiers of education. Everybody would be looking at what was to be learned and doing their best to try to achieve that. I think part of the reason Iowa may be more understanding of this is you've had the Iowa Core for years, you've had a system, plus the Iowa Assessment tests. I think I'm right in saying I took those when I was in elementary school -- the Iowa tests. So Iowa has a testing system based on a core curriculum for a really long time, and you see the value of it, you understand why that helps you organize your whole education system. And a lot of states, unfortunately, haven't had that, and so don't understand the value of a core, in the sense of a common core that then -- yes of course you can, y'know, figure out the best way, in your community to try to reach.

But your question is really a larger one. How did we end up at a point where we are so negative about the most important non-family enterprise in the raising of the next generation, which is how our kids are educated. There are a lot of explanations for that, I suppose. Whatever they are, we need to try to get back into a broad conversation where people will actually listen to each other again, and try to come up with solutions for problems, cause the problems here in Monticello are not the same as you'll find in the inner cities in our biggest urban areas -- that's a given -- we have to do things differently. But it should all be driven by the same commitment to try to make sure we do educate every child. That's why, I was a senator and voted for Leave No Child Behind (sic) because I thought every child should matter."

Because long rambling statements consisting of no substance (with little gems of "somethings" tucked in) says oligarchy more clearly than Bill Gates throwing money at the Clinton Foundation to impose education mandates (diktats) from faraway Washington DC upon our children and our local school districts ever could.

It takes the Queen of Village Idiots or sumpin.

[nailgunnin4you]

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