New Hampshire has spoken. In voting for Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, Granite State Republicans and Democrats sent a clear anti-establishment message.
Although the anger on both sides of the political aisle is targeted at different issues (illegal immigration for the Republicans, Wall Street excesses for the Democrats), it is fairly safe to say that the source of the anger is the same: the presidency of Barack Obama.
Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common Core's standards as the silver bullet that will make all K-12 students college and career ready.
This confidence is remarkable for two reasons. First, Common Core's standards in English language arts and mathematics are vastly different from those we had in Massachusetts before the state board of education voted in July 2010 to dump them for Common Core's standards, for $250 million in Race to the Top money – standards that led to greatly increased student achievement in reading, mathematics, and science in our regular public schools and in our vocational/technical high schools.
