It is a neoliberal organization that is totally on board with privatizing public education through charters. To say Democrats for Education Reform is “left-leaning” is laughable disinformation. Such partnerships are increasingly unlikely as anti-Common Core sentiment pulls Republican officials toward their base and away from compromise on education.” In recent years, left-leaning groups like Democrats for Education Reform worked closely with Republican governors on issues like charter schooling, teacher evaluation, digital learning, and much else. “Along the way, the Common Core has driven a wedge between education-reform allies. He mentions charter schools as being hurt by Common Core saying: In his long article he never even mentions public education. With his claim to be facing reality however, he never acknowledges that Common Core is part of the goal of corporate and financial interests to privatize public education. However, his main concern seems to be with how it was implemented saying it allowed critics on the right to claim it is “Obamacore”. He gives a very good chronicle of what is wrong with Common Core. To acknowledge that its implementation has been a “stealth strategy that bypassed a distracted public” is also quite amazing. To have a supporter of corporate education reform like Rick Hess say, “At this point, however reasonable the rationale for the Common Core, it seems increasingly clear that American education would be better off if this unfortunate, quasi-national enterprise had never made it off the drawing board.” is quite amazing.
I wrote about this several years ago here: We are, I think stuck in a debate within an autonomy and control framework, while ignoring the great potential for mutual responsibility. The 100% proficiency demands were designed to undermine confidence in public education, as was the connection between teacher evaluation and common core testing in Race to the Top and School Improvement grants.Ībsent from much of the media attention to the strident debates about federal v/ local control is the simple fact that no system in the world has made significant improvement based on standards and high-stakes testing. Missing from analysis is exposure of any the behind-the-scenes role for companies looking to profit from a more coherent and less fragmented market and the hopes of market ideologues searching for tools to undermine the power of teachers unions in particular and public education in general. Rick Hess, highlights many important points about what “went wrong” with the Common Core State Standards, laying the blame on the Obama administration and inside the beltway technocrats. They thought that people might be swayed by a massive propaganda campaign to fall quietly in line.
They thought the public might not catch on that their state had surrendered its power over its own curriculum and testing. insiders thought they could pull a fast one. Consequently, dozens of states signed on without even reading the CCSS. States couldn’t be eligible for a slice of the federal billions unless they adopted “common college-and-career-ready standards,” shorthand for the Common Core standards. Those standards were being developed as the Race to the Top was announced. In the linked article he explains that the Common Core went wrong because Washington insiders convinced themselves that the nation needed rigorous common standards. When it comes to the Common Core, Hess has always been skeptical, though not opposed. This article is a good example of Hess demonstrating his sharp intellect and his willingness to stray from the rightwing corral. We often disagree but I am often impressed that he doesn’t follow “the party line” of free-marketeers. Rick Hess directs education studies at the conservative, free-market American Enterprise Institute.
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