Business Leaders Speak To New Yorkers About Common Core

Buried near the bottom of the NY Times article on the Common Core tests is this doozy:

New York’s bleak scores could prompt unease among elected officials who have staked their reputations on rising test scores. 

“For educators and parents who aren’t crazy about testing to begin with, one can understand why they feel like they’re being subjected to bait-and-switch,” said Frederick M. Hess, an education policy scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. 

On Thursday, a group of prominent New York business leaders, hoping to stave off the resistance to the Common Core standards, will release a letter urging New York policy makers to move forward with the new standards.

Will some of the prominent business criminals, er, leaders work for JP Morgan Chase?

Because the same NY Times that reported business leaders are worried that New Yorkers will balk at the Common Core after this test epiphany is reporting JP Morgan Chase is under criminal investigation in two states for fraudulent activity around subprime mortgages.

Maybe some of these business leaders work for Bank of America?

If so, that would be interesting because the New York Times reports that BoA is being targeted by both the SEC and the DOJ for defrauding investors by selling worthless or greatly overvalued investment products.

Perhaps Rupert Murdoch, owner of News Corporation will be one of those business leaders?

If so, he's due to explain before Parliament why he turned a blind eye to corruption and bribery in the newsrooms of his British papers even as his company faces lawsuits in the U.S. over hacking and a DOJ investigation into violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

We fetishize "business leaders" in this country.


But who cares what "business leaders" say about the Common Core?

Many of these people are criminals anyway.

Many of them stand to make money off education reform.

These people don't send their kids to any schools that will be using the Common Core.

It doesn't matter a whit what "business leaders" think.

Check that:

Maybe it does matter.

If "business leaders" think NY State should do something, then it behooves us to do the very opposite.

Just ask all of those Goldman Sachs customers robbed by the Vampire Squid of Wall Street.