During a forum held by the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, Granite State professor Dr. David Pook offered that he helped craft the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts because of "white privilege".
Ironically, the Derryfield School in Manchester, New Hampshire (which has a 91% Caucasian student body) where Pook serves as chair of the History Department, does not use those Common Core standards because they are inferior.
So why do some politicians continue to champion Common Core? Some have suggested crony capitalism.
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush (R-FL) is a big backer of Common Core. Kathleen Jasper, a former Florida educator and founder of ConversationED.com, suggest that there may be pecuniary interests in pushing Common Core. Jeb Bush's Foundation for Excellence in Education is heavily tied to Pearson, a leading education publisher and test making company. So Pearsons publishes the k-12 books, they create the tests, they score the tests and coincidentally keep the data.
Per Jasper, Pearson garners between $15-$30 for each test administered. Due to No Child Left Behind and Race For the Top federal mandates, students have to retake the tests over and over again until they achieve an acceptable score. So kids keep constantly taking tests (without knowing why they failed) and businesses like Pearson profit from processing the perpetual paperwork.
Presuming this is an accurate assessment, it is ironic to see how Educrat's political correctness works well with crony capitalism in Common Core which imposes a regime which profits from failure to educate well.
h/t: American Thinker
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