Common Core and the Death of Public Education

The title on this article is very misleading as the majority of her critiques are about Common Core. There is a decided bent on the corporatization of education, though, and the incredible profit there is to be made in shifting toward test prep and related materials.

As a libertarian, I've long been a fan of charter schools, but I've noticed a change in the way many of these private/public schools work. Instead of being laboratories where different education theories and teaching techniques can be practiced, these schools are becoming arms of their corporate sponsors, owned and run by the people who are selling the tools to cope with the abysmal Common Core movement.

If anyone tries to tell you that Common Core is nothing but a move to minimal national standards, point to articles like this one. There's a lot more to these federally-mandated standards, and increasingly, our schools are becoming captive markets for multi-billion dollar companies and their federal supporters.

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/12/public_schools_under_siege_diane_ravitch_warns_salon_some_cities_soon_will_have_none/