From the Gates Foundation:
“Unfortunately, our foundation underestimated the level of resources and support required for our public education systems to be well-equipped to implement [Common Core]. We missed an early opportunity to sufficiently engage educators – particularly teachers – but also parents and communities so that the benefits of the standards could take flight from the beginning.” Missed and opportunity to sufficiently engage?
They ram-rodded this garbage down our throats without the slightest pretense that local concerns mattered at all.
Do they think we forgot?
We missed an early opportunity to sufficiently engage educators – particularly teachers
That seems redundant and repetitious.
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The education system seemed to have a major shift in the mid-1960s, when 'experts' began conceptual learning rather than the old fashioned rote learning. That was about the time 'new math' and 'new language arts' hit the scene.