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Vice President Mike Pence shook up his staff last week, and the moves included making one Sandwich High graduate his press secretary.
As The Cape Cod Times reports, Devin O'Malley, who graduated from Sandwich High School in 2004, is Pence's new press secretary.
Supporters who want to keep Common Core's failed standards in place have come up with a new twist for deceiving unhappy parents. First, they point explicitly to Common Core as a failed strategy to increase the academic achievement of low achievers in order to alert parents to what has happened.
They do what seems at first confusing because it is widely known that most parents and teachers (if they felt free to speak their minds) detest Common Core's standards, tests, and aligned textbooks or readings. All Common Core's failings and limitations are real. While the many articles on the decline in student achievement in a Common Core-aligned educational environment tell the truth, there is malice in the schadenfreude expressed about the many disadvantaged kids who have been deprived of the educational equity that Common Core was initially touted as creating.