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Smart Money? Philanthropic and Federal Funding for the Common CoreKornhaber et. al.
2016
Makes the case that Common Core funding increased the undemocratic influence of venture philanthropies and for-profit organizations over public policy while also benefiting them through increased sales and revenue by providing tests, aligned curriculum, and other resources despite a lack of evidence that these resources improved teaching and learning or reduced achievement gaps.
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Mal Radagast
Mal had intended to be an English teacher, to share a love of stories but also a belief that stories are the building blocks of the universe! That’s what we are all made of, and it’s what we are doing every time we connect and interact with one another...telling stories, with every breath. Which makes reading and understanding them so much more than academic! We have to know what kinds of stories we mean to tell. Having wandered out of a story that wasn’t his after all, he’s currently lost in exploring the study of media literacy through Dungeons and Dragons, or ELAD&D.
