Common Core's enemies are another reason to support it

Chris Rickert

There's a pretty good chance Scott Walker doesn't know much about Common Core, the new set of education standards for kindergarten through high school being adopted by states and school districts across the country.

It's not surprising, then, that when his spokesman was asked Tuesday to explain what his boss meant when he said the standards might be too weak, this newspaper got no response. It's likely that Walker doesn't know what he meant.

He's not alone -- a poll recently found that two-thirds of Americans hadn't even heard of Common Core -- and that's unfortunate because it leaves the door open for those at the extreme ends of the political spectrum to step into the vacuum.

In May, state tea party groups sent a letter to Walker and the Legislature accusing the Common Core of being all sorts of bad things, including an "educational fraud" and something of a federal takeover of education.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 3, 2013 1:09 AM
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