Common Core thinks name change will fool

Posted: Sep 17, 2015

The state of New York looks to be the next state with plans to re-brand the Common Core by calling it something else but otherwise making virtually no substantive curriculum changes. New York Board of Regents chancellor Merryl Tisch announced in a public radio interview on Tuesday that education bureaucrats are “toying with” the possibility of a new statewide name for the perpetually unpopular Common Core State Standards Initiative... There is so much politicization about those words — ‘Common Core,'” Tisch said in the interview. “So we can call them the Empire State Standards, or New York’s Higher Standards. The crafty, high-risk, high-reward name-change strategy currently under consideration by New York education officials originated in “Coming to America,” a 1988 comedy in which Eddie Murphy plays a wealthy African prince who works at a fast food restaurant in Queens, New York called McDowell’s .... Iowa has implemented the McDowell Strategy by changing the name of Common Core from Common Core to “The Iowa Core.” Florida plans to fool everybody by rebranding Common Core as the “Next Generation Sunshine State Standards.” .. Arizona has superficially changed the name Common Core to “Arizona College and Career Ready Standards... Louisiana also considered the tactic. dailycaller.com ... ;