tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6711470281998032448.post8134223077347793862..comments2023-12-07T00:41:03.305-08:00Comments on Second City Teachers: Reply to Common CoreJvail900http://www.blogger.com/profile/03786050285260494603noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6711470281998032448.post-3709082086502986172015-01-23T17:42:43.500-08:002015-01-23T17:42:43.500-08:001) Neal's right about CC's being a more ri...1) Neal's right about CC's being a more rigid , nose to the grindstone approach to the classroom. It's qualitatively different from the point that Ron made that education has always reflected the perceived needs of those who in large part control the market economy, i.e. the ruling class. There is less "open space" in a teach to the test environment. CC's also in tandem with the increased importance of extracting big profits from the education sector of capitalist enterprise, a relatively minor player until fairly recently. 2) Separately, there seems to be a contradiction between the assertion that CC's based on the belief that if pushed hard enough, working class 8th graders can perform at the levels currently being achieved by upper middle class high school students and the assertion that the goal is to increasingly exclude students from college and junior college training programs with an eye to hiring cheaper labor abroad. Of course it could be that CC is being pushed from a variety of points of view, all of them reactionary. <br /><br />Steve Livingston, retired CTU delegate<br />Jvail900https://www.blogger.com/profile/03786050285260494603noreply@blogger.com