Alan Singer: Common Core, What Is It Good For?: "The author noted that the common core standards "are a creation of the National Governors Association, working together with the Council of Chief State School Officers, which represents state education commissioners." What he left out however is that much of the work of these groups is funded by foundations related to companies like Microsoft and Pearson that stand to make a lot of money selling new products to school districts if the standards are implemented.
In 2010, the National Governors Association received a significant portion of its operating budget from foundation grants and contracts, corporate fellows, and other contributions. The NGA and CCSSO have received millions of dollars from the Gates Foundation. Its over one hundred corporate partners include Educational Testing Service, Apple, Pearson, Cisco, College Board, DeVry, Houghton Mifflin, IBM, Intel, Microsoft and Scholastic, all companies that stand to benefit from its policy recommendations. Recent corporate award winners include Walmart (2011) Intel (2010), and Microsoft (2009)."
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