Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. (The more that changes, the more it’s the same thing.) — French proverb In part a review of The Educator & the Oligarch: A Teacher Challenges the Gates Foundation by Anthony Cody. (New York, Garn Press, 2014. 199 pages, no index. $15.30 from abebooks.com) By Franklin Sanders Anthony Cody doesn’t like the Common Core. I can’t say I blame him. This “curriculum” will utterly transform education and its goals, standardizing students even more straitly than public education already homogenizes them. It will also make money — lots of money. Maybe that’s why, … Continue reading Purpose of Common Core: Centralize, standardize, digitize, harvest the young