<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">Thank you, Margaret, for calling out this (nicely produced) propaganda piece. Before Common Core, this is the sort of propaganda (glittering generalities, bandwagon) high school students were expected to recognize. Common core appears to promote the skills needed to spot propaganda, without specifying that specific goal--a flaw to be fixed.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span
style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.15; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;">At 3:20: Cut away from Tienken on a </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">panel at a</span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap; line-height: 1.15;"> public forum; metro ride to Lyndon Baines Johnson Department of Education Building; voiceover:</span></div><div><span><span
id="docs-internal-guid-14452448-264e-ebbc-29b8-3574fac62548"><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“Parents, students and educators are being forced to comply with a broken system that has no evidence to support it. Professional judgment, local expertise, scientific evidence, moral responsibility and ethical behavior have been subjugated at the altar of centralization and standardization brought on by an ever-expanding relationship between America’s corporate education complex and policymakers.”</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:
15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Tienken's over-the-top rhetoric lapses into ignorant bigotry with this:</span></span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span><span><span style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">8:39 "to state otherwise is like saying the </span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">sun revolves around the earth. That's pre-Enlightenment thinking. To make policy based on that thinking is professionally and ethically reckless." </span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color:
transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Did Tienken learn his world history in East German schools? Or did he mistake Bertholt Brecht's "Galileo" for a PBS documentary?</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;">Bottom line: Tienken's message is a loser:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span style="background-color: transparent; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "Please respect the professional judgment of teachers who embrace hollow
rhetoric, propaganda, and ignorant bigotry."</span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Margaret DeLacy <margaretdelacy@comcast.net><br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><br>I am on the fence about the Common Core but I wouldn't recommend this video. Too many of its claims are inaccurate. <br><br>The biggest problem is that it confuses a standardized test with a single standardized curriculum, but there are other problems as well. <br><br>A good argument against the CC needs to start with the truth. <br> <br>Margaret<br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>