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Much of the "No Excuses" stuff sounds like during even elementary schools into mini-prisons, if anything it makes a very sad amount of sense looking at the way our criminal justice system is designed. Anyway, the common core as a concept may not be such a bad thing, but I expect the implementation to most likely be quite haphazard especially since most teachers don't understand it and I doubt the federal government or state governments are going to pour serious money into fixing it. The most dangerous a bad system is, is when it seriously tries to reform itself. It doesn't help either it is likely to be tied to the hip to all the rest as others have said. Even if you are white and middle class, you have to wonder if you want to throw your kid into such a mess.
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Slobjob Zizek posted:I think the narrative lot union-busting/teacher resentment/etc. is implicitly tied to the idea that the profession of teaching (or medicine or the academy or whatever) has some intrinsic value. But does it? Do teachers really "know what's best for their classroom"? Probably because professional autonomy is a completely separate than much broader social ills that honestly need to be handled at the political level. It doesn't help that the political class seems to be ignoring social ills while reducing autonomy...most likely for ideological reasons. If anything reducing teacher autonomy is most likely going to make those ills worse because the current ideological underpinning of most of the reforms is very damaging and teachers have no ability to resist whatever new scheme is cooked up.
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