Despite recent defense rallies by Bill Gates, wars are raging against the embattled Common Core State Standard Initiative, now implemented in
44 states and the District of Columbia. Though criticisms can be leveled at
the lack of evidence that the Common Core will lead onward into
a brave new world of education, the overarching problem of the initiative is
that its strategy is not educational. Standardized, field-leveling information
designed for mass consumption with a strict utilitarian agenda is nothing more
than a training event, a programming session.
