I don’t have time to listen to the file. However I have been trying too warn people about DeVos and how she might be a Faustian bargain. Today I hear the DeVos family is a large donator to GLEP ( Great Lakes Education Project) and guess what they are Pro-Common Core. My gut feel over a year ago told me Trump would win, my gut feel is telling me this was not a good move nominating Mrs DeVos.
Bridges at School is a topical curriculum developed for American middle school classrooms. Contextualizing the Arab World and providing a unique series of both critical thinking and creative lesson plans that shed light on the rich historical, scientific, mathematical, religious, and cultural legacy of the region, this program focuses on the themes of global citizenship and identity through a series of analysis-based lesson plans. Bridges at School highlights poetry and values-based paired texts; fashion and style; visual art; food and spice; drama; music; language; medicine and science; and mediaDevelopment funding for Bridges at School is courtesy of Donna Pearson Chapman and The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation.
https://bridgesofunderstanding.org/education/
Bridges at School | Arab Contributions to the Sciences
https://www.nextlesson.org/project_details/bridges-at-school-arab-contributions-to-the-sciences/c4d2c06d5478c5e18f499543fb020833e6396dd5e8698dcd8e8eab77 Select "Preview"
Common Core pages 3, 13
See also the sample lesson plan given on pages 16-20
http://www.excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors/
http://web.archive.org/web/20130301033627/http://excelined.org/board-corner/board-of-directors
http://www.excelined.org/about-us/reform-agenda/
http://www.excelined.org/common-core-toolkit/common-core-toolkit/
Her statements that she does not support Common Core are not credible. She has for years sat on the Board of Bush's common core promoting foundation and her own foundation pays for the development of common core lesson plans.
Agree - she’s not going to kill Commie Core