Education Next – Andy Smarick
“Lots of edu-commentators have lots of edu-predictions for 2015. I’ve tried my hand at the forecasting business (relentlessly in some cases), so far be it from me to nitpick all this crystal-balling. But one recurring theme strikes me as wishful thinking: that the 2015 politics of Common Core won’t be so bad. My Bellwether colleague Andy Rotherham, with whom I often agree, wrote the “biggest debates about Common Core might be behind us.” Similarly, Carmel Martin predicted our “Moving on From Common Core Debates.” She wrote, “for the most part legislators are getting tired of the issue.” To me, believing this requires turning a blind eye to three enormous facts.”(more)