Dumb Versus Dumber in Common Core Debate
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Nov. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Last week, Arne Duncan, thesecretary of education, picked just the right words to make anincreasingly hot controversy even hotter.
Like many education officials in both parties, Duncan is adefender of the Common Core initiative to create uniformacademic standards for K-12 education in all states. Resistanceto it, he asserted, comes mainly from “white suburban moms”who don’t take kindly to hearing that their children aren’tmeeting newly raised standards.