In story after story, the New York Times consistently misses the essence of the controversy surrounding Common Core.
Today’s New York Times gives its lead article on page 1, column right, top of the fold, to the battle raging within the Republican party, about the Common Core. On one side is Jeb Bush, standing up for the Common Core standards (presumably a moderate, let’s not talk about his fight for vouchers and for the destruction of public education in Florida), while on the other are figures like Ted Cruz and other extremists of the party. Common Core, we are told, is now the “wedge issue” in the Republican party, with sensible people like Jeb Bush fending off the extremists.
A few weeks ago, the newspaper wrote an editorial enthusiastically endorsing the Common Core standards, while giving no evidence for its enthusiasm other than the promises offered by the advocates of…
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Crazy Normal - the Classroom Exposé 
Richard Sutton
April 20, 2014 at 10:35
The fact that they have consistently missed that the “standards” were created by a testing business think tank without a single educator in attendance, and big bucks on the table is the smoking gun. I’m disappointed in an otherwise usually investigative journalism.
Lloyd Lofthouse
April 20, 2014 at 12:00
Most of the traditional media is now owned and controlled by some of the oligarchs responsible for what’s happening to the public schools.
However, there are a few publications that are still free of that web of deceit. Yes! Magazine and ProPublica are two examples. I found a copy of Yes! Magazine on sale at a Barnes & Noble brick and mortar bookstore.
http://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/education-uprising/the-myth-behind-public-school-failure
http://www.propublica.org/article/segregation-now-the-resegregation-of-americas-schools#intro